Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific front: the Germans were pocketed on a series of "islands," where the beleaguered armies could survive only so long as they were supplied from centers many miles away. As rail and road routes fell to the Russians and advance depots were depleted, the Germans had to depend more & more on supply...
...that the Red Army up to now had lacked: great numbers of trucks and other motorized equipment, the means and ability to keep huge supplies of gasoline and munitions moving up behind advancing forces. Upon this supply system, now functioning under difficulties, the outcome of the Russian offensives may depend...
...holes had been closed. But nowhere did the Germans attempt strategic retreats, or show the slightest sign that they intended to withdraw to safer winter lines. Wherever Axis troops lost a position, they gave it up only when they were killed, wounded or captured. The Axis forces had to depend more & more upon air transport, but they still had alternate lines of supply to all the armies-and would have them until the key junction points west of the Don were seized. The Germans' worries showed less in their accounts of the battles than in their home propaganda. Said...
...removal of land mines is the sort of horrifying job that defies description. All armies depend on their-engineers to do it. One detector is a sort of divining rod that works on an electromagnetic circuit, creates a buzz in the engineer's earphones when held over a buried mine. Such equipment is cumbersome on a battlefield, and British sappers prefer the old poke-&-dig method (see cut). Once the mines are discovered, each-whether there are 250 or 25,000-must be dug up with a fine touch...
Cushion for Casualties. Yet soon or late, and probably soon, more concentration will be on the way. To carry it out much will depend on the good sense of the Government and the small businessman himself. For the latter the hardest lesson of all is that though he is fighting for his life, so after all is his country. For Government the biggest problem is to provide some means of compensation, without engaging in monumental subsidies, so that businesses which are squeezed out now can reappear later. Best notion yet advanced is Donald Nelson's recommendation to Congress last...