Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific. The Gilberts fell in 76 hours, the Marines on Tarawa won their bloodiest battle, and the U.S. Navy was launched on its drive through the Central Pacific. Logical next step: to the bigger, stronger Jap positions in the Marshall Islands...
...into hundreds of thousands. In the Army of the Bryansk Forest alone, 3,200 men and women won guerrilla and Red Army decorations. Other "Armies of the Forest" -between Kiev and Zhitomir (see map), in the Pripet Marshes, in White Russia and the Crimean Peninsula-are as big, or bigger...
...today fight with captured rifles, hand grenades, machine guns. The larger units employ German-made artillery and tanks. Scarce items-medicines, winter clothes, shoes-are supplied by Red Army planes and parachutes. An air shuttle service flies doctors and Army officers into guerrilla territory, flies the wounded out. The bigger "armies" operate their own bakeries, hospitals, community bathhouses. Many mimeograph and distribute their own newspapers...
Conservative Mr. Douglas, who never wanted to get any bigger, soon found himself not only in Tulsa, but all over the globe. He says, mournfully: "We were shanghaied...
When war clouds rolled up in 1939, Douglas was a middling-sized company with plants at Santa Monica and El Segundo. But he had a big-company backlog of $69,000,000. Cautious Donald Douglas did not want to grow any bigger and did not intend to. All this planemaking interfered with his engineer's urge to design planes. But the Army changed his mind...