Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keeping prices within reach of lower-middle-class pocketbooks (present Gunnison range: $2,800 to $5,000), by allowing 24 years to pay and letting no monthly payment exceed the buyer's weekly...
...Solomons base, the U.S. Navy issued a stern order: commanders of naval vessels, particularly PT boats, must not exceed 25 knots through the inlet. Reason: the wake at higher speeds (as delighted small-boat skippers had discovered) washed the Army privies off their stilts, dropped the establishments and their occupants into the water. Also forbidden: paint-up pictures of privies on small-boat bridges, with scores marked underneath...
...General Mihailovich now commands between 35 and 40 thousand effectives . . . will mobilize no less than 400 thousand effectives on the day Allied invasion forces land in Yugoslavia. . . . Tito's Partisans do not exceed 20 thousand fighting men. . . . Mihailovich's army is ... representative of the peasants, the workers, the artisans-in a word, the people of Yugoslavia. ... It is sometimes falsely believed that Tito brings progressive ideas to Yugoslavia. Ninety percent of Tito's Partisans are Communists. . . . They kill the most intelligent peasants. . . . Mihailovich is ... very glad about Soviet successes [but] Yugoslavs like their king...
Dangerous Living. Today the infantry comprises less than a fifth of the U.S. Army (the Air Forces and the Service Forces both exceed it in manpower). Public appreciation of the infantry has lagged far behind, partly due to the mistaken notion that the Air Forces had the most dangerous job. No less an authority than Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, chief of Army Ground Forces, is responsible for the statement that thus far in World War II the infantry takes "more than half our total battle losses." The infantryman also "endures great hardships, he gets more tired, he sleeps less...
...third annual report, the Committee flatly stated: "The bulk of the initial [war] equipment and supplies will have been manufactured within 60 to 90 days. . . . We may expect cancellations or cutbacks . . . within a few months to exceed new contracts." Then, the Committe roundly damned what Lazarus had called "a system of quotas or cartelization...