Word: acorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Acorn. BEW began only last August as a 50? edition of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare. All it had was Wallace, Perkins and a problem: in the delicate, murderous, bloodless warfare that is half diplomacy and half business, the U.S. was taking a bad licking...
...with China had been a war of vic tory. Newsreels had shown heaps of Chinese dead, never a Japanese body. But even victory had pinched Japan. Last week, as for many, many weeks, rice was rationed and bread, when available, was sour and heavy with acorn flour. Press notices warned: "Vegetable-Hungry People Not To Raid Fields in City's Suburbs...
...pleasant shock. The U.S. Army's Armored Force already has two crack divisions in the field, three in training, another about to be organized, plus 15 separate battalions. But it is now obvious that this force, far from being a military sapling, is little more than an acorn...