Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France were undoubtedly a chief subject in the discussions between Churchill and [Field Marshal Sir Alan] Brooke and De Gaulle and Juin this week. If the concerted reaction of the French press, and also President Roosevelt's speech, are indications, France will be given the materials to build war industries to equip her own soldiers. This means that we are planning for a much longer war than anybody at home-or here either -thought possible last September...
...build it, prisoners had spent months in molelike mining with small shovels from barrack coal scuttles. To hide the earth and rock they removed, they granulated it and scattered it on the camp's graveled grounds. Authorities, reluctantly admiring the secret tunnel, soon suspected an additional evidence of Nazi cunning. Three more prisoners were caught, and all were enlisted men. They began to seem suspiciously like decoys, pledged to lay down a false trail, then surrender...
...dependency. He did not think the island ready for self-government again, proposed instead: 1) Newfoundlanders be allowed to elect three members of the six-man commission now ruling the country; 2) substantial grants by Britain to put the country on its feet; 3) a ten-year plan to build up neglected social services and to develop resources...
Leyte was declared secure. Now the job in the Philippines was to build up Allied forces, especially in the advanced outpost of Mindoro, for the big push on Luzon. The Japs knew it, and reacted in familiar fashion: they sent down a task force of surface ships to blast the soft-shelled beachhead with heavy guns...
...Problems. More production meant the building of more plants, although Nelson had said smugly: the war machine is built. In August WPB still thought no new plants would be needed. But from November on as German resistance stiffened into a crashing offensive, the Army hastily reconsidered. WPBoss Krug had dumped on his desk plans to build one billion dollars' worth of new war plants. These would be for high-octane gas (the octane shortage had been "solved" months ago), for tires (the rubber problem had been "solved"), for jet motors and scores of brand-new weapons...