Word: averting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Ickes was fighting for control of public power; the big new aluminum plants needed more power fast; copper for new wiring was short and the Army & Navy were screaming for all that was in sight. "Cap" Krug came through the test with colors flying: he did not completely avert power shortages, but he kept the huge new aluminum plants and all other war industries turning. Now he runs WPB's famed "Purp" (raw-materials allocation) plan...
...Alaska, to the daily shame of the U.S., sat the Japs. Across the Don in Russia the Nazis fought their way; Rommel was getting up steam again in Egypt; and the formerly isolationist Scripps-Howard newspapers clamored for an all-out air attack on Germany which would thus avert the bloody necessity of the U.S. coming squarely to grips with the enemy. The British were beginning to believe their leaders had deceived them in their promises (or hints) of a second front this year; the desperate Russians had begun to tell their people that everything depended on their own soldiers...
...promised in a fireside chat which was broadcast throughout the world, that he will use all the executive power at his command to carry out the seven-point anti-inflation and war economy policy which he submitted to Congress Monday and which he restated tonight as necessary to avert economic disaster...
...Germany was a year ago. In front of Japan, the war is going according to her plan, but dare she keep going without removing the threat in her rear? For years the Japanese press and her military leaders have shouted: "[We] cannot sleep peacefully a single hour. ... To avert ... a catastrophe it is necessary to strike quickly in the direction of Vladivostok...
...that was noteworthy. In Russia and Japan (Doubleday, Doran; $2), Author Maurice Hindus, one of the few people outside the Soviet Union who gave the Russians a chance against the Nazi steam roller, wrote: "A war between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope of ever becoming the dominant power on the mainland of Asia...