Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway was a fish of a different scale. If Herr Hitler accomplishes his conquest of Norway, he will have an immediate economic liability on his hands. Like Denmark, Norway is an economic specialist. Her specialty is export of natural resources. She exports timber, pulp, cellulose; iron ore, pyrites, copper, nickel, molybdenum; fish, whale oil-products which Germany...
...they live on a Peoria scale...
With the story of a fatal expedition to scale the peak by British mountaineers, the play attempts to represent the struggle of man, the idealist, against the forces of civilization...
...gamble on a great scale, fraught with the risk of extending an already long front and the danger of exhausting a vital hoard of oil and other strategic materials. To work it had to have 1) surprise, 2) complete and efficient coordination of the three striking arms, army, navy, air force, on a broader and more complicated scale than any war had ever seen before. It involved landing parties at many points over hundreds of miles, a swift invasion across Denmark's land border, preparation by air and sea bombardment...
After the war the Roses razed Camp Gordon in Georgia, Camp Sherman in Ohio, set up salvage yards in 14 U. S. cities, spotted executive offices in five other cities from coast to coast. String-savers on a grand scale, they also bought army goods-everything from McClellan saddles to cots and hospital equipment-opened Army-&-Navy stores to resell them. They wrecked buildings by the thousands, branched into new lumber. In 1928 they incorporated. The company was named Cleveland in honor of Father Rose's home; its technical headquarters were based in Cincinnati because it was an Ohio...