Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recalled: the prediction of one-eyed Mexican General Joaquin Amaro that "the time will come when Latin America will have to furnish 10,000,000 troops to the Allies...
...million*, the Axis 28 million. But United Nations losses would be more than the figures indicate, because perhaps half the Russians have had some military training, while a great percentage of those in the United Nations' pool has not. Furthermore, Germany would have conquered enough people to furnish the 1,000,000 more workers it is estimated that she needs to man her factories, let alone those rebuilt on Russian soil...
Airplane engines (unlike automobile engines) are not broken in by actual use, but must furnish maximum power at the first takeoff. This means that airplane engines have to be broken in by running them on the ground at the factory for at least twelve hours without stopping...
...desecrate by her presence the huge cluster of monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which detest all forms of indecency...
...Before. The problem of rapid industrial building on a national scale was nothing new to Builder Kahn. In 1928 the Soviet Government, after combing the U.S. for a man who could furnish the building brains for Russia's industrialization, offered the job to Kahn. Twenty-five Kahn engineers and architects went to Moscow. They had to start from scratch. Russia not only lacked factories, but the pencils and drafting boards to design them. There was only one blueprint machine in Moscow. Six months were taken up in compiling a Russian-English technical dictionary so that the U.S. engineers could...