Word: far-flung
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...merchant vessels. Totaling 310,000 tons and headed by the flossy S.S. America (TIME, June 9), the new additions brought recruit merchant tonnage for the services since the emergency began to better than 500,000 tons-none too many to carry materials and about 190,000 men to the far-flung bases which the U.S. is building. To man this fleet and do incidental jobs, some 4,500 Coast Guard officers & men were jerked out of their service, plunked down in the Navy (where they always land in wartime...
...home-run hitter of 1940. But their pitching was questionable, their fielding unreliable. To replace Outfielder Joe Medwick, Pitcher Curt Davis and Catcher Mickey Owen, three Old Reliables recently sold to the rival Brooklyn Dodgers, Manager Southworth had brought up a batch of green rookies from the Cardinals' far-flung farms...
...west they roar to Shanghai, other Chinese cities; to the southwest they fly over Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand. The eastern and western arms of their airlines form a giant horseshoe around the Philippines (see map). To gain these far-flung routes Japan used fat subsidies, even bullets. They shot down at least two defenseless, passenger-carrying planes of competing China National Aviation...
...particular group of Germans this prospect is intoxicating. They are engineers whose imaginations are as far-flung and generalized as most German engineering minds are focused and specific. Recently three German journals ran an article by Dr. Walter Hagemann. That colonial expert, sarcastically flaying the "chaotic" imperialism of the African past, vaguely blueprinted the Nazi Africa of the future, a sort of New Super-Order with Jules Verne trimmings...
Protected by great stretches of blue water, Balboa is the heart of naval defense of the Canal, will need far-flung defenses if an enemy ever gets a foothold on the Pacific side of South America. It may need protection, even before that event, from harassing raids by enemy carriers or by long-range bombers, when factories begin producing raiders like Douglas Aircraft...