Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Farish died he left behind him a task that in its scope and importance makes the position of all but the very top Washington politicos look like small change. A big war producer (including synthetic rubber) at home; in the thick of war itself abroad and on the high seas where it commands the largest private fleet in the world; deep in Good Neighbor policy, especially in Venezuela; snapped at by Thurman Arnold for its former connections with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie-Standard Oil is the most far-flung industrial empire U.S. enterprise ever put together...
Last week the Sun announced smugly: ". . . exciting news for New Yorkers . . . John Kieran is coming. . . . His daily column 'One Small Voice' will be limited only by the scope and fertility of the Kieran mind. ..." The fertile Kieran mind had sprouted the seed which has been observed in other sportswriters, notably Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler-the desire to break away from the confinements of sports columning, to reach into the grab bag of memory, to write about anything and everything...
These radical changes were foreseen last month (TIME, Nov. 23), but their full scope was not revealed by the Army and Navy until last week.* All told, some 250,000 young soldiers will get a year of college education "on a broad democratic basis without regard to financial resources." Cost to the Government will be a half billion dollars-the greatest scholarship fund ever established, equivalent to the total yearly cost of college teaching...
Temporary Stalemate. After many days of local skirmishes between companies and battalions, the battles on the Stalingrad front suddenly increased in scope and fury. "Large groups" of Russians within besieged Stalingrad tried to break out and join Russian forces on the outskirts. On the Don front, west of the city, two German regiments and 80 German tanks drove back the encircling Russian lines. The Russians said only that they retreated. This week Moscow dispatches reported "a temporary stalemate," and said that the Russians were now looking to winter weather to win their winter offensive...
Propaganda Brew? Last week, for reasons known only to the Berlin Government, the official radio deliberately exaggerated the scope of recent changes. It "announced"' that 44-year-old General Hans Jeschonnek was now chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff, that Admiral Kurt Fricke had become chief of the Navy's General Staff. Actually, Jeschonnek has been chief of the Luftwaffe staff (under Inspector General Erhard Milch) since February 1939, and Admiral Otto Schnie-wind, whom Fricke allegedly replaced, has had another post (Fleet Chief) since 1941. Berlin, in short, was again manufacturing news for propaganda purposes...