Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, who have their own red tape, are faster in the adoption of new weapons, as U.S. soldiers have often sadly found...
...elsewhere what she hopes to buy from the U.S. Example: prewar Russia ordered four of nine generators from General Electric for the Dnieprostroy Dam, built five duplicates in Soviet factories, had to wait ten years. To rebuild Dnieprostroy the Russians could now build all nine, and probably faster than before. But they have ordered all nine from...
...Americans: Alternatives. From the standpoint of industrial potential, the U.S. decision on whether to give major aid to Russian reconstruction is therefore a choice between promoting faster Russian recovery or faster German recovery. With full aid from the U.S., the U.S.S.R. might in three to five years regain her 1939 production but would probably take several decades to approach U.S. levels...
...Faster than Sound? Part of the secret of the Shooting Star's hair-parting speed is an aerodynamically new knife-edged wing which helps "master the problems encountered when the speed of sound [about 750 m.p.h.] is approached or surpassed." The rest is in such things as the ship's light weight and her powerful jet engine (improved and built by General Electric from an original British design). One of the engine's best attributes: it can be replaced in 15 minutes-against an average of nine hours for the standard plane's reciprocating engine. This...
...week began, the 24th and 38th Divisions of long-faced Major General Charles P. Hall's XI Corps were probing down the coasts of Bataan. The plan was plain, but the Japs could do nothing about it. Hall's men made faster progress by far than had Lieut. General Masaharu Homma's arrogant legions in 1942; one after another, the natural defense lines were passed...