Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come. First fact to seep out was that the President's big proposals did not mean much in themselves. Actually to make the purchases which he referred to last week would cost at least $3,000,000,000 ; to round out the Army and Navy to his new scale would cost uncalculated billions more. Even his $1,182,000,000 was bound to mean 1) new taxes, or 2) lifting the present debt limit of $45,000,000,000. Yet Congress last week boggled only at a detail: whether to give...
...best means of expanding our air force in the preparedness program, Bollay believes that we should take a leaf from Germany's book and subsidize commercial aviation on a grand scale preparatory to nationalization if and when war comes, as was done with railroad and shipping industries in the last war. For training civilian pilots he feels that the CAA flying course, now in operation at Harvard and many other colleges, and Colonel Knox's government-approved program are steps in the right direction...
Once-isolationist newspapers demanded preparedness on a scale unthinkable two months ago. The Chicago Tribune denounced Army & Navy bureaucrats, called the Navy obsolete, insisted on a mammoth air force...
...Goring, Goebbels and all.their Nazi craftsmen. Mere curtain-raisers for this show had been their absorption of Austria, their bludgeoning of Czecho-Slovakia, their rape of Poland. Only the prologue was their swallowing of Denmark, their kidnapping of Norway and imprisonment of Sweden. Now came the reil thing-grand-scale Blitzkrieg across Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands with an end view either to conquering the British Isles or smashing France, or both. Adolf Hitler's visionary exaltation at this historic hour vibrated in his order-of-the-day: Soldiers of the West Front! The hour of the decisive fight...
...rubber used in manufacture, could furnish more in a pinch. But with a reduced or interrupted supply of new crude, reclamation would gradually dwindle away. For new supply, the U. S. has little more than a start. U. S.-owned plantations in Latin America are still on an experimental scale, retarded in growth by inadequate labor, poor transportation and the reliance of the U. S. on sources across the Pacific. Rubber-growing in the Philippines, Florida and California is still in the nursery stage...