Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crop, all garden crops-chief livelihood of some 20,000 natives-smashed the Pan American Hotel and U. S. Navy hangar, left 40 American families and 15,000 natives homeless. When it was over, Governor McMillin called for Red Cross aid. First reports indicated that the typhoon approached the scale of the great blow of 1900. But that storm cost 20 lives; last week's, none. What damage, if any, the storm did to Japanese air and sea bases on surrounding islands, the Japanese kept to themselves...
...British strength from Egypt, paving the way for an Axis drive on vital Suez. The Italian attack was in fact no feint, but the British could take no chances. The Salonika campaign in 1915-18 required 157,000 men, and Britain now could spare nowhere near that many. Large-scale land action was out. So far as naval action went the prospects were brighter. If the British could consolidate themselves on the Greek islands they had a much better chance of staying in the eastern Mediterranean. If they were cagey, they might even draw the Italian Fleet into the long...
...Scale down slightly the $9,200,000 a day the French are paying for the cost of German occupation...
...night attacked the capital, the present procedure is to reduce the total number on London and to use more in the provinces. Several of our Midlands industrial towns have been receiving attention, and there is the usual scattered and useless bombing on an even more extended scale over country districts...
Revival. "In the 19th Century came awakenings on an unprecedented scale. . . . Never before had the Roman Catholic Church been served by so many devoted spirits. . . . Protestantism became more vigorous than ever it had been...