Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these demands stack up to more food than U.S. farmers can produce. They are short of labor, of machinery, of fertilizers. They are threatened with a breakdown of highway transportation. Most farm trucks are overage, tires are worn thin, replacements hard...
Wartime conditions affecting Freshman enrollment were shown in a University release which stated that 464 of the 569 men who registered for the first time in July and November were under 18 at the time. A complete breakdown of the figures indicates that about 2.3% of the Class of '47 enrolled...
...indicated that the occupying Americans had to fight bitterly for three weeks against a spirit army which moved in from Attu. In the South Pacific, too, Japanese spirits "have tangled with the enemy, causing many of them mental derangements and others to kill themselves as a result of nervous breakdown and morbid fear...
...breakdown of the figures reveals that the Navy won all eight of the boxing bouts, gained a 46 to 20 margin in the swimming meet, and captured the basketball title 48 to 30. The Army was triumphant in wrestling, four matches to three...
...breakdown of British propaganda in the Dominions (especially Australia) has been under inquiry for some time. Hughes's charges were not the first that someone had bungled badly. BEPA could not be certain who the bungler was, but it knew who could tell them: carrot-topped Brendan Bracken, British Minister of Information. OWI men could understand his predicement...