Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke out in 1914, Russia was completely unready. Recruits had no rifles, ammunition was short, even such necessities as shoes for soldiers were lacking. But the Russians were persuaded to attack the German rear, and for two years an army that was scarcely an army served to divert German attention from the real job, the Western Front...
Railroad men blasted the Seaway from every side. Their main fear: loss of profitable petroleum, coal and automobile traffic (on the assumption that a new transport medium will divert more traffic than it will generate). Last week an 85-year-old pro-Seaway lobbyist (for Minnesota) named J. Adam Bede, who was a Congressman in 1903-09, remarked: "Aw, I've heard all this before. ... I remember when the railroad people testified that the transcontinental rails would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have...
...like, and that seem to swallow the objections of interested parties like a century of U.S. history. Yet Americans are also logical, and in 1941 the logical question about such a project is: does it help or hinder defense? Whatever it does to rail traffic, the Seaway job must divert men and materials from the manufacture of planes, guns, ships...
Such a pact would presumably: 1) enable the U.S. to fight in the Atlantic without fear of attack by Japan; 2) enable Japan to pursue her adventures in the Pacific without fear of attack by the U.S. Or it might be a cunning Axis plot to divert U.S. attention away from the Orient...
...Louis, choleric Neville Miller, Louisville chum of quiet Mark Ethridge, and now $40,000-a-year president of the N.A.B., blasted the monopoly report. Snapped Fly: "These men, to divert attention from the fact of monopolistic control in their hands, conjure up insistently the bogey man of Government operation." Retorted Miller: "It may be that those who think Government operation is essential are conjuring up the bogey man of monopoly...