Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cumulative effect. Since every plant destroyed places an increasingly heavy strain on the remaining plants and interrupts their flow of materials, the cumulative effect is an important factor. This in turn is stepped up by systematic destruction of key plants-power plants, blast furnaces, etc.-on which others depend...
Coach Stahl will depend on Warren "Moe" Berg, the owner of a four game winning streak, for the Crimson hurling chores. Brown is expected to counter with their ace moundsman, work-horse Earl Nichols, who engineered last month's whitewashing of the Crim...
...will train a whole division. This is only a small start. Of possible U.S. theaters of war, nearly a fifth are mountainous: e.g., Alaska, the Canal Zone, Iceland, Malaya, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece. In such terrain, where mechanized divisions stall, the U.S. may some day have to depend on its mountain troopers and slogging, sure-footed mules...
...country which has more steel than any other, is suffering a steel shortage because we did not plan in advance. According to statistics, said Kohn, we should win the war, but statistics alone cannot win, for it will depend upon how we use what we have that will tell...
...items in this Siberian inventory will surprise U.S. 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...