Word: driblets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slightly annoyed by slowdowns but unhampered until last month by such outright strikes as paralyzed U.S. auto reconversion, British manufacturers seemed at first to have got off to a fast start in the race for postwar world markets. Early this year they even managed to ship a driblet of cars into the U.S. itself. But, with reconversion nearly complete, the British were now waking up to the fact that their auto production system was not up to the American model...
...When Madame Helena Sikorska (widow of Poland's late great Premier and commander in chief) and 15 leading Poles protested, Prime Minister Winston Churchill fumed. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden lectured Premier Mikolajczyk. But R.A.F. flyers from Italy made a 1,750-mile round trip to drop a pathetic driblet of supplies to the besieged. Polish paratroops, idle in Scotland, had to remain idle in Scotland...
Chicken and Ice Cream. In a battle like Saipan, where casualties are heavy, hospital ships cannot evacuate more than 20 or 30% of the wounded. The rest, except for the driblet evacuated by air, return to rear areas aboard transports, which are usually crowded and cannot hope to have the exceptional facilities of a hospital ship...