Word: filterable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Estimates. The enemy had at first been grossly underestimated, not only as to numbers but also as to ability. It had never occurred to the British that little men in shorts and gym shoes could actually filter through Malayan jungles. Japanese forces had apparently made contact all the way across the peninsula: even across the central mountain-spine. The middle jungles had previously been the domain of the dwarfish Sakai, a hairy, blow-gunning people who travelers say are so primitive that they have digits only up to two and count: one, two, many, many-many, many-many-many...
...seventh floor of a brick, steel and concrete building, a spot immune to any bomb. Supervised by Army officers, its girl volunteers take flashes from the outposts, maneuver discs and blocks about huge table maps, like croupiers at a roulette game. First map is in the Filter Center, where each aircraft is checked and charted-by white discs when its allegiance is unknown, by colored blocks when it is discovered to be hostile. Flight directions are plotted by arrows...
...When the Filter Center has filtered out false alarms and corrected errors, the information is relayed to the Main Operations Board, where each plane is charted on a 30-ft. table map, from the moment of its discovery until the "All Clear" sounds. Brooding over the Main Operations Board, from a perch in a glass-enclosed balcony, is the controller, key man of the setup, who determines the best way to head off the enemy. With him are officers in charge of antiaircraft, balloon barrages, searchlights and air-raid warnings. The controller, whatever his military rank, is supreme...
...Department had about decided to enlist women in the U.S. Army. Several branches of the service had asked for it. Most importunate was the Army Air Forces, which is anxious to sign up 25,000 women to serve as telephone operators, plotters and tellers at Army Information and Filter Centers (see p. 55). The Army feels that such jobs, now looked after by volunteers, would be done better by disciplined maidens in uniform...
...this calculation, the U.S. will provide 25% of Britain's food supply. The billion will also be spent in a fashion that will reach more people more directly than at any time since the defense program got under way. Orders . for arms filter slowly into the spending stream, but purchases for farm products, partly because the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration has long been set up and functioning, can pour out like a flash flood. Half a billion will go for meat, fish, fats, lard - mostly pork. Some $250,000,000 will go for dairy products...