Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conspicnous by their absence were men such as Dave Goldthwaite, Don McNicol, Johnny Page, and Ray Guild, who were expected to show up. But to bolster his weakened squad, Harlow made several changes. Johnny Teal moves from tackle to fullback, while "Swede" Anderson, a center last year, will be converted into a bucking back...
...cubic feet of space. Only ship leaving San Francisco was a Navy vessel. The Army begged the Navy for space, was turned down. Officials investigated, discovered that one hold in the Navy ship carried only peanuts, candy, soft drinks, cigarets. The Navy said the shipment was needed to bolster Navy morale. The ship sailed without the Army's order...
Outnumbered, outgunned, sorely in need of heavy cruisers to bolster their light naval units, the Allies took a beating off Java. The Dutch had started the war with five cruisers: the loss was a severe blow to total cruiser strength in the Indies. For his losses, the Jap got his landings on Java (see p. 16). For the Allies, graver than their total loss in ships was the immediate threat to their last naval base in the Indies...
...Fleet (with its supporting aircraft) in blasting Japanese convoys in the Strait of Macassar. He could note, too, the depressing fact that the Jap first approached vital Amboina with a piddling naval escort, got little or no naval opposition. Three cruisers, a dozen destroyers, even one aircraft carrier, would bolster U.S. and Dutch naval strength in the Indies, would help to stop the Jap short of Java...
...three strategists had three tough problems to solve. Should Britain risk her Indian defenses to bolster Burma? Should the U.S. rush in more air power besides the 100 "volunteer" pilots of the International Tigers (who last week helped shoot down nine Japanese planes over Rangoon)? Should China mount an offensive into Indo-China, or rush troops into Burma, or even to Malaya? The conferees announced the creation of a Military Council, the first working body for joint action in the war. But their strategic decisions necessarily remained a military secret...