Word: divertible
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...this time, OPA is backed by WPB, whose potent weapon is its power to allocate cloth. WPB is ready to divert materials to manufacturers who will agree to turn out cheap clothing. They have already allocated 40,000,000 yards to make the infants' and children's clothes called for under the OPA plan...
Chief problem: to drain Steep Rock Lake, which is fed by the Seine River. It was first necessary to lower the level of nearby Finlayson Lake 57 ft., then divert the Seine into it. Dams were built, canals and tunnels cut. Once the Seine was diverted, 14 mammoth barge-mounted pumps began sucking 125 billion gallons of water out of Steep Rock Lake itself...
...long as Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's 20-odd divisions were tied up in Italy, the Nazis would have to divert supplies to them which might otherwise go to the invasion coast. Likewise, Kesselring must be prepared for amphibious landings in the north. (Berlin radio fran tically forecast that Allied troops were poised in Corsica and Sardinia for such a purpose.) In the Anzio sector, stiff Prussian Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen planned to meet another Fifth Army attack on the Germans' flank...
...industry was let in last week on a WPB secret. Vice Chairman Charles Wilson told the Automobile Labor Advisory Committee that when Germany surrenders, WPB will divert 35% of U.S. war facilities to civilian manufacture. At the present rate, this will mean a cutback of $25,000,000,000 in war production, will reduce war output to about $46,000,000,000 annually...
...underlined one of the most pressing of Army production problems last week. When another Army big shot recently cabled "I've got to have 1,300 crawler tractors," the Army had to rob warehouses of badly needed agricultural units, had to beggar other essential construction programs, and even divert equipment from Lend-Lease commitments.* For-in some areas, at least-World War II has turned into a tractor...