Word: divertible
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...full cognizance of our disadvantages as well as our advantages. We do not underrate the task. Transportation of the fighting forces, together with transportation of munitions of war and supplies still constitutes the major problem. It can be said that the coming operations, which were discussed in detail, will divert German strength from the attack on Russia...
...fact that disturbed the U.S.: this was no small-scale attempt to divert attention. The Japanese had disregarded such difficulties as long and arduous supply lines, torrential rains, miasmic fogs, 80-mile gales, scarce anchorages, flinty soil, volcanic mountains, a savage shoreline...
...only the gods can say how long U.S. truck tires will last, or whether an early winter will close down on the Great Lakes and divert millions of tons of iron ore to the western railroads...
...purpose of displaying all this data is not to divert any emphasis from war to post-war thinking. Some 400,000 aircraft workers will be thrown out of work, but it wouldn't matter if 4,000,000 packed the bread lines, so long as we win the war. The important point is that problems of unemployment relief and plant conversion are being met in the automobile industry today. We can take care of these 400,000 men, but only if we make plans now for speedily turning defense plants back into peace-time production, and tiding these workers over...
...basis it is our Government." The President answered: It would help if the "bright boys" who talk of Government economy would specify what activities they would like to see reduced. Economy was up to the people and their representatives, said Franklin Roosevelt. Then he quietly ordered all agencies to divert surplus manpower to war work...