Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...help being incensed to cold fury by the hypocrisy of the Lindberghs, the Nyes, the front groups who have attempted to discourage our rearmament by whatever means, and who now seek to divert attention from ourselves by criticizing our alleged unpreparedness...
...will only be possible through full cooperation among all the nations opposing Hitler. The Committee, nevertheless, declares we must fight alone. British forces in Singapore and Hong-Kong, and British war-vessels in the Pacific are fighting alongside us, while British sea-power in the Atlantic enables us to divert more of our fleet for the Asiatic struggle, yet the Committee accuses America of "neglecting her defenses by pursuing an irresponsible and sentimental pro-British policy...