Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the scope of the project had sunk in, Pogue announced the really big news. He indicated that this was no phony warmup; this was the takeoff. He wanted to wait no longer for the U.S. to get its props into the postwar air. In short, he would open pre-hearing conferences, at which the applicants could show why they should get the best routes-within three weeks...
True, Germany had not been knocked out by air. But equally true was the fact that air power had not been given either the scope or the time to swing for that knockout with its full weight...
...ability to select from tens of thousands of manufacturers those who are to be permitted to produce, and from thousands of items, those which are to be produced. The decisions that would have to be made are too numerous, complex and interlocking, and there is too much scope for bias and prejudice." Five days after the Truman speech, the War Production Board announced a special committee, under its executive vice chairman Charles E. Wilson, to plan progressive reconversion...
Solid Pattern. In reality, the pattern of air attack, while growing in scope, had not yet fully shifted to the ferocious concentration on German military communications which would be the logical "attack bar rage" directly before invasion. Main Allied air objectives were still: 1) German air industry, 2) air power in being, 3) other industry, 4) Western Europe's railroad system...
...scope of the job that U.S. air ambulances are now doing was sketched last week in cold figures...