Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor in order to reduce the striking power of the U.S. Fleet beyond Manila. Japan wants the rich (oil, tin, rubber, etc.) Netherlands East Indies. But the path to the South China Sea is watched by many policemen. Headed southward, Japan will have to pass Manila, with its complement of bombers. She must risk a full-out attack on the Philippine defenses or bypass them...
...Surcouf carries a complement of 150 men, boasts of 10 torpedo tubes, and displaces 4000 tons--an average submarine figure is about 750 tons. The Surcouf was built at Cherbourg recently, has seen considerable service, and was visited by DeGaulle before it came here...
...first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon. After trial flights, K-3 will be ready for coastal patrol, the first of 48 blimps authorized by Congress, in a sudden appreciation of LTA. It was high time, thought Captain Rosendahl. In Lakehurst's dwindling complement were three aging tactical blimps (including two Army castoffs), one experimental ship and four others good only for training airship crews...
...Faced with the urgent necessity of opening the dining halls with the return of students and a shortage of help which may amount to as much as one-third of the normal dining hall complement, the University reached an agreement between Malcolm Aldrich and Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, representing the Harkness estate to suspend the old system during the current emergency." The Yale News reported...
...picket, who was reported cut by a bayonet. A few hours after two battalions of troops had taken over, workers were streaming through the gates, and Lieut. Colonel Charles E. Branshaw, in command, announced that the tie-up was over. Some 2,000 workers, about one-quarter normal complement for the shift, were back inside, limited production had been resumed. Unless there was a new outburst, North American would soon be back at top-speed operation...