Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caucasian oil fields, which are almost within Hitler's grasp, would make up the Nazi oil deficit and enable the Germans to keep their war machine in high gear. If Hitler should be able to capture these fields, however, he would probably have to spend about ten mouths in repairing the refineries and oil wells which would be destroyed in accordance with Russian "scorched earth" policy...
...struggle to take away what power he had caught Nelson at a bad time. WPB's program was sadly out of gear. Some of the nation's bright, shiny, proud new factories would never turn a wheel, for lack of raw materials; some might even have to be torn down for scrap. This was not Nelson's fault: the Army & Navy had contributed to the shortages by prodigal waste in specifications...
...Admiral Leahy gets the power that his title implies, he will have a tremendous job: he will frame strategic plans with the President, direct their execution, tie the military war effort of the U.S. into a coordinated whole, gear it with the grand plans of the United Nations. He will also have to put Army & Navy in their proper psychological relations to each other...
...lack of steel the famed Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit may grind to a stop within a few weeks. Elsewhere in the Detroit area the Chevrolet gear and axle plant, the Fisher Body plant No. 1 are already shut down...
...Navy equipment that in reading an appropriations bill he may spot not merely additions to the Fleet, but small changes in ships in service. From a sheet of figures, where an ordinary layman detects only digits, he comes up with funnels, torpedo tubes, extra speed, six new submarines, degaussing gear, winches. But this strange genius takes no notes. His filing system is all between the ears...