Word: divertible
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...foolish. Those who would support it in the name of national defense are mistaken. In the first place there is no real food shortage. We do not compete much with national defense when we eat more food. In fact the government would encourage such a policy in order to divert surplus money, from competing with the government for durable goods...
Congress didn't trust us this time, and decided to settle the question with a national law. In many localities, the saving of power for industrial use is vital. It has been estimated that "war time" will divert 736 million kilowatt hours for use in war industry...
...rough idea: an extra hour of daylight for the nation should cut down the national consumption of electricity between dark and bedtime (the peak demand for electric power), divert 736 million kilowatt-hours annually to war-production plants. Even so, a power shortage for 1942 is predicted...
...Japanese attempted last week to do what the Germans did in World War I. Then German U-boats slipped boldly into U.S. waters, clipped cables, laid mines, sank an estimated 170,000 tons of shipping. The Japanese hoped by the same means to divert U.S. naval strength, to cripple U.S. merchant shipping, to fan U.S. war jitters with repeated, savage submarine attacks on West Coast merchant vessels. The initial Japanese showing was dismal...
Rate boosts in the past have demonstrated that they are not the prime answer to railroad financial problems. Too often the railroads have timed them to accentuate a fall in traffic (see chart). They always divert traffic to highway and waterway competitors, cause shippers to lie awake nights scheming ways of eliminating rail transportation...