Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course provides successful candidates with a commission as an ensign in the reserve after four months of training, one month at sea, and three months in the U.S.S. Ellinois in New York harbor. Its aim is to fill a complement of 5000 which it is estimated by Naval officers will be attained following the fifth of the series of cruises...
...outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were rented by the day from civilians to fill out the National Guard's complement of rolling stock...
...Germany becomes mistress of the seas is inherent in the U. S.'s greatest strategic liability: South America. Caught by World War II on the point of taking a major place in world trade, "the Continent of the 20th Century" is more a half-completed duplicate than a complement of the U. S. economy. Of all her major exports, agricultural and mineral, the U. S. takes only one: coffee. Yet of the coffee production of the Brazilian plantations, the U. S. can use only 57%. The rest, if coffee raisers are to thrive, must be sold in world trade...
Last week Argentina shifted uncomfortably on the fence, nervously tried to guess the winner in the Anglo-German struggle. With a foreign-trade policy based on reciprocity, Argentina has consistently attempted to buy from its best customer. In the past Argentina has found an excellent complement to its own economy in that of Great Britain, has sent beef, wheat and maize to the British Isles in return for manufactured goods...
...Navy. Next to be launched is the 35,000-ton North Carolina next week (at the Brooklyn Navy Yard). But launching is not completion: not before December 1941 will the Washington be fitted with her nine 16-inch guns, her secondary batteries of twelve five-inchers, her complement of eight antiaircraft guns. By official confession, ships so far along in construction cannot be altered to benefit in full from the antiaircraft lessons taught by World War II. Washington VI nonetheless is far ahead of Washington V: longer (125 ft.); 16-inch armor (instead of tapering from 16 to 14 inches...