Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public last week got its answer to the big question: When, and on what scale, was the automobile industry going to turn its mass-production genius into the job of building airplanes for national defense? Fortnight ago, Ford and Chrysler announced that they would help with the business of building bombers. Last week the rest of the answer came from G. M.'s President Charles Erwin Wilson (successor to Big Bill Knudsen). General Motors was going into the bomber business, too. From the three, the U. S. should get its bombers at the rate of 5,000 a year...
...Settled without any stoppage of work was a dispute at the East Farmingdale, L. I. plant of Ranger Engineering Division of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. UAWorkers there receded from original demands, compromised on a new wage scale: 50? an hour to start, 55? after four months, 60? after that...
...Architect Thomas S. Tait as Director of Standardization, he last week submitted a reconstruction plan of vast perspective to the Cabinet. In it he recommended that such Gordian knots as land-tenure complexities and conflicting powers of local authorities be resolutely slashed, that reconstruction be planned on a mammoth scale with decentralized industry, new housing arrangements and social amenities for workers, highway planning, and reapportionment of land on the principle that all land of whatever category must be used for the communities' benefit...
...terms of Germany's lightning drives from Smolensk to Bryansk and from Bryansk to the outskirts of Moscow, it is relatively small for the time spent. Yet the wishful thinking of the press has given birth to a widespread notion that the counter-attack is a large-scale rout, although any amateur pin-pusher can discover that the Soviets are doing in months what the Nazis did in weeks...
...truly adequate account of such a life as Clorinda's, of such a community as Dixie Mission, would perforce be a great novel. But adequacy, on that scale, is no small word. Maurine Whipple gets a great deal onto paper, both of the weight and progression of a life and of the interlock-ings of a community, but it is only in her last 30 pages that she approaches adequacy: a strong groundswell almost to the edge of "grandeur. As for the rest, it is at best an infinitude of competent but never quite excellent stitching...