Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Walter Reuther's plan was on a braver, broader scale than Mr. Knudsen's proposal to put the industry's mass-production brains on the job of making aircraft parts, on the grounds that its actual machinery and assembly lines are no good for making airplanes. Broader too was his assertion, backed up by extensive arithmetic, that the industry already has enough idle men, machines and floor space to turn out 500 fighters a day within six months...
...seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence in English. Finally, he has found that the wage scale for his own countrymen is lower than the scale for aliens. Having absorbed nationalistic ideas in Italy, where his brother, onetime President, sent him as Minister, he is determined to enforce them in Panama...
...centre of German arms production, there are being forged weapons of another spring's Blitzkrieg .... The entire economic effort of at least 120,000,000 in the heart of Europe is directed into the channels of the Nazi war industry. German loot has been on a gigantic scale. . . . The Nazis are exerting 30% more energy than Britain on their war output. ... In the war's second winter we still have three-quarters of a million workers we cannot find use for. . . . Let every man in Britain ask himself whenever he feels like taking life easy, 'What have...
During reading period the Network will continue service although on an abbreviated scale. After exam period broadcasting will not only cover all seven Houses but on certain feature programs will be carried to other colleges like Brown, Wesleyan and Rhode Island State...
...methods and the tactics which made this possible were last week becoming apparent. They could be summed up in one military moral : the Greek Army knew how to use what it had. For example, it is said that one bomb tipped the scale at Corizza. Knowing that Italian reserves were being rushed along a certain road, a Greek general sent for some of the few British Blenheims available to him. They arrived in time, knocked out a bridge over which the Italians must pass, machine-gunned the halted column on the far side. Only one of the three Blenheims returned...