Word: dispersionism
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From Dakar to the English Channel, short-range U-boats prowled. Above the Channel, the Nazi surface warships (and more subs) were dispersed against the threat of British bombers. But all were within a few hours' steaming of the supply line up the Norwegian coast to Russia. Their dispersion...
That Air Force actually taught its teacher, Adolf Hitler, some tricks. In skillful use of the torpedo bomber, it excelled anything the Germans had devised. In speed of maintenance, fueling and supply far from home base, it suggested the solution of problems which had seemed formidable to the Germans. In...
Last week, like a recording needle caught in a groove, the campaign was repeating itself for the fourth time. Four Japanese columns drove south on the city. All through southeast Asia Japanese columns were moving forward in just such a fashion, using the lore acquired in four and a half...
The Germans realized that butadiene could be obtained far more cheaply from petroleum than from coal. So, hard up for oil, they exchanged their patents for others to Standard Oil of New Jersey, which licensed them in turn to several U.S. rubber processors. Chemists of the U.S. Rubber Co. discovered...
Experience in Britain is teaching that dispersion is better than protection, according to Dr. Gordon. "No matter how good a shelter may be," he said, "a direct hit is a direct hit, and the loss of life may be enormous." This principle is leading to increase use of the Anderson...