Word: divertible
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...Marines landed on Choiseul at night, 18 hours after the Treasury Islands attack began. There were about 2,000 of them, and their heaviest weapons were 60-mm. mortars, but their job was to make a noise like a couple of divisions, to divert attention from the Bougainville landings. They succeeded: the Jap radio reported 20,000 Allied troops on Choiseul...
...Fortnight ago, 13 brigades of 20 women each made the rounds of Mexico City's worst dives, got police to jail 380 proprietors for violations, dump 140,000 gallons of illicit pulque down the sewers.) But the best chance of smashing the pulque trade seems to be to divert it to beer. Mexican beer is among the world's best. And since 1932, the beer industry has persuaded the tax-conscious Government to reduce taxes on beer so that it can be sold almost as cheaply as pulque. Breaking the tippling habit of centuries will be slow...
...bitter tug of war between the Army and Big Business for the control of heavy industry. Japan's great holding families, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, did not oppose war; they opposed Army dominance of the economy. Under the Army's guidance, the new Ministry will now divert more yen, men and materials into the manufacture of weapons, at the expense of the little man's wardrobe and dinner bowl. Especial care, Tojo has indicated, will be lavished upon the aircraft industry...
...Builders. Deadlines for invasion operations had been set by the Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff. In order to meet them it eventually became necessary to divert some naval construction facilities to the task. Even such an urgent program as the construction of destroyer escorts was deferred. The landing-boat program has cost more than a billion dollars. And the Navy is turning out more of them for future operations...
...Star again defined Russia's demand: "By a second front we understand an operation by our allies in the west which would draw from 50 to 60 divisions from the Soviet-German front. . . . The struggle for Sicily, however, failed to divert a single German division from the Soviet-German front...