Word: bearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Asian event which Itagaki and the Japanese army never forget. That event was the weird (to Occidental minds) and semicomic Japanese invasion of Russian territory in 1918. The Japs chose an opportune moment, when Red Russia was weak aborning, to endeavor a second time to drive the Russian bear out of the Far East. They wanted, and seized, Russia's northern half of the island of Sakhalin, the half rich in coal and oil, and added it to their southern half. In the guise of Allied intervention, they seized Vladivostok, a port worthwhile for itself and dangerously near Japan...
Good Luck. But ordinary escapades no longer bear relating. An Air Corps lieutenant still flies whose chute failed to open at two hundred feet until his plane exploding just beneath him sent up a great blast of gas and flame-enough to blow the chute open, but not quite enough to set it afire, though the inside of it was blackened like cork. Another lieutenant swimming down a river had to fight his way through crocodiles, slashing at them with his heavy jungle knife. He escaped with a couple of nasty tooth marks in his shoulders...
...this is the one big reason for the raw-materials crisis. He wants a new, over-all review of all Army & Navy specifications, with particular emphasis upon using more secondary, reprocessed metals. He also believes that castings could replace metal-wasting machining operations in many cases, that silver could bear much more of the load borne by copper, nickel...
...which is blocking a kind of Rockefeller Center he's building. Stubborn Sister Stanwyck won't sell because her father told her not to. Besides, she was once secretly married to Brent-just long enough to collect a badly needed inheritance from her Aunt Sophronia and to bear Brent a child. Says Sister Fitzgerald when this truth comes out: "Oh, my darling spinster, how you've been...
...A.E.F. now in Britain could bear little resemblance in organization and distribution of fighting units to the A.E.F. that will jump off when the second front is launched. The big emphasis now had to be on troops that pave the way for a drive: Quartermaster, Engineer and Signal Corps outfits, housekeeping units for the Air Forces. Some combat units were on hand. But the bulk of the A.E.F.'s striking power would come later...