Word: disruptions
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...Their bombing had been exceedingly accurate, although most of the bombs were of small caliber. Therefore, the damage was not permanently serious, but of a nature to disrupt all regular services. The power station was out of order. There was neither electric light nor telephone. The radio station had ceased functioning...
...Roster's approach. They were members of the Engineering Society of Detroit, which is an engineers' clearinghouse affiliated with the local sections of 16 national technical societies, from ceramists to welders. They had several fears: 1) the draft might get too many technicians; 2) private pirating might disrupt defense work (as it has); 3) if industry fails to get full efficiency out of its engineers, the Government might commandeer everybody's specialists. To work out an orderly procedure for getting the right brains into the right spot, and to protect their plants against raiding by competitors...
This situation played right into British and Russian hands. Moscow was out to plague German interest in the Balkans. Britain was out to disrupt Germany's Rumanian oil supply and to hamper spring planting...
...says so. His book describes in great detail the immensely ramified activities of the "underground" Communist movement. It describes how strikes in Europe were fomented, and sometimes broken by the fomenter when they conflicted with Soviet policy. It describes the methods whereby a single experienced Communist sailor can disrupt a whole ship by sabotage. It describes how the 1923 Communist uprising in Germany (in which Valtin led a detachment) was organized, then called off by Moscow after fighting began...
...White House went Martin Dies, fuming with defiance. Out last week was a 1,000-page Dies Committee report on Communism in the U. S. It outlined the program of the Communist Party, named names, charged the Reds with plotting to disrupt defense industries, destroy the morale of the armed forces of the U. S., discourage enlistments, foment civil war. Popping with ideas, Dies, in Texas, had telegraphed the President for a conference...