Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Give & Take. Author Stettinius has some meaty facts for famine shouters, who have loudly blamed Lend-Lease for U.S. food shortages. Said he: "In the overall picture the Lend-Lease slice of American food has been small-6% in 1942 and about 10% in 1943. In crucial items the percentage has been even smaller . . . half a pound of beef out of every hundred pounds, three quarts of milk in a hundred, one of every 100 cans of vegetables...
...years the U.S. soldier's grey-greens have been a nuisance to him. They are hard to adjust, complicated to lace (especially the left one), have a trick of starting to go adrift at crucial moments. Beyond that, a bumpily laced, hurriedly donned legging will inevitably bring a bark from the noncom, a frigid stare from the nearest officer...
...General Pershing never concealed the fact that he considered Marshall the A.E.F.'s outstanding staff officer. Nor was Pershing alone. Many an Allied colleague readily admitted that Marshall, at 37, was author and director of the most outstanding large-scale troop movement of World War I: during two crucial weeks before the Meuse-Argonne operation he shifted more than 500,000 men and 2,700 guns with such perfection that the Germans learned of the maneuver an all-important 24 hours too late...
...large harbors, such as Le Havre or Cherbourg, the tide is relatively unimportant; it is crucial on long, low beaches on which invaders can land only at high tide. Extreme tides coincide with full moon. The western wall of Hitler's Europe will see the full moon on Jan. 10, Feb. 9, March 10, April...
...generation's advance in science has been packed into the last three years. One agency alone, the Army & Navy's Office of Scientific Research and Development, is spending $100,000,000 a year on research. The scientists' job is considered so crucial that for the first time in U.S. military history a civilian scientist, OSRD's Director Vannevar Bush, now sits on the Army & Navy's war councils. The full story of Bush's scientists cannot be told until after the war. But Science at War tells a good deal...