Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first or the best Hollywood attempt to make first-rate entertainment out of serious ideas. But more spectacularly than any other film to date, Wilson represents Hollywood at the crossroads-a Hollywood scared to death of mature responsibilities yet eager to assume them, and willing now & again to bet its shirt on the attempt...
General Hideki Tojo bowed before the Emperor, confessed his many failures. As Premier, holding most of the strategic Cabinet posts, he had bet on the wrong team in-Europe, had led his country into war. As War Minister and lately Chief of the Army Staff, he had lost Saipan, was still bogged down in China. As Munitions Minister, he had failed to achieve sufficient war production at home. Tojo resigned with his whole Cabinet...
...were never more than a hundred grizzled oldsters eventually discovered. The youngest were in their 60s. The oldest was 84." These 19th-Century survivors were building 20th-century destroyers. But the novice shipbuilders, said the executives, were better than the shipbuilders of World War I. They learned faster, behaved bet ter, dressed better...
...back soon. Probability: a slow demobilization, only about 250,000 a month. One Army school of thought (including most soldiers) favors demobilizing veteran troops first. Another favors holding them longest, because they are better experienced. Likely compromise: some veterans will be kept to "salt" green troops. One sure bet: veteran jungle fighters will be demobilized as soon as possible, for reasons of health as well as morale. Even after Germany surrenders, the Army expects to keep 2,000,000 troops in Europe. Probable size of the eventual U.S. peacetime Army: 2,500,000 men. Probable size of the Navy...
Chernyakovsky was a good bet to be the first Russian commander to reach the sea, at Königsberg or Memel, and to cut off General Georg von Lindemann's Sixteenth and Eighteenth Armies (30 to 40 divisions) in the north. Up to this week they had made no visible move to withdraw...