Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing the Rightist drive, partially under his command, General Juan Yague told correspondents at captured Peralejos, eight miles from Teruel, ''The operation was the same bolsa or 'pocket' maneuver we used to such good effect throughout our northern campaign and at Brunete last summer...
Chinese newspapers said the Generalissimo was in personal command of 400,000 troops defending his "Hindenburg Line" near Suchow (TIME, Feb. 14). In this sector the Japanese advance launched fortnight ago was proceeding cautiously last week, Japanese artillery blasting the way for Japanese troops. The Chinese, although greatly outnumbering the Japanese, appeared decisively inferior in artillery and aviation...
...into it went also new Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Göring, Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, Naval Chief of Staff Admiral-General Erich Raeder and Major General Wilhelm Keitel who was appointed last week Adolf Hitler's "deputy" as War Minister and Chief of the High Command...
...speed of 160 m.p.h. and a range of 730 mi. Though no passengers are intended to ride in mother plane Maia it is equipped as an Empire flying boat, has seats for 16. Fastened together the two planes, all eight engines (5,200 h.p.) roaring, take off. In command is the pilot of Maia, connected by telephone with the pilot of Mercury. On signal both pilots unlock the elaborate hooking device-Mercury soars off with its half-ton load; Maia returns to its base...
Until last year this caused the cartel no great worry because all three non-members exported only a fraction of their production, leaving the cartel in command of an estimated 90% of the export market. With the current recession in the U. S., however, and the consequent falling off of domestic steel orders, certain U. S. makers have been dumping steel abroad, undercutting cartel prices and taking advantage of the steel hunger of nations preparing for war. For the first eleven months of 1937 U. S. iron & steel exports were 36% above 1929, 192% above 1936. Rolled steel exports amounted...