Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factories, for access to the Caucasus, and as the Red army's southwestern anchor. Above all, the Germans had not yet crossed the Don at its eastern bend, where it would be most difficult and most urgent for them to cross. And, until they did cross and conquer the tough alley between the Don and the Volga, Stalingrad was safe from direct land assault- though not from air attack...
...readers more than the report of large oilfields in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. If true, the real defensibility of the Siberian bastion may well depend on those fields. For it is generally believed that 85% of Russia's oil is in the Caucasus fields; that if the Germans conquer this oil even the Siberian military, industrial and agricultural machine will break down...
...bellows of slaughtered cows have almost ceased in North Carolina, and Tarheel dairymen have turned their curses elsewhere. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last week that North Carolina is the first State to conquer dread Bang's disease, contagious abortion of cows, which has cost U.S. cattle and dairy industries some $50,000,000 a year in aborted calves and milk losses...
...alleviating her position, have increased her immediate difficulties tenfold. She is bewildered by the crushing defeats America and Britain have suffered. Her Burma Road-her so-called lifeline-has been cut. Half the army she sent to Burma may never return. Japan has launched a new attack, designed to conquer her remaining railway lines and perhaps eventually capture Kunming and deliver a death blow...
...termite trouble may become worse. There is constant danger that new varieties will be imported (the U.S. has already exported several varieties of termites in lumber to Europe, where only two native types occur). But most scientists doubt that the termite and other social insects will conquer man and dominate the earth, despite the fears of Novelist H. G. Wells. Reason: limitations of their breathing apparatus...