Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a heavier enrollment than in the past few months, the May class at the Chaplain School began work on Monday. Most of the men as usual, came straight from civilian life...
...Germans opened up with everything they had-guns, machine guns, mortars and heavier artillery from the rear. In the hours which followed the hill was alive with explosions as American artillery fired at the Germans on the eastern side and the Germans fired on Company...
...airlines are carrying almost as many passengers with only half their 434 pre-Pearl Harbor planes, by heavier loading and a daily average run for each plane of 1,100 miles. Trucks: 200,000 of the nation's 4,500,000 are already out of service (no manpower, no rubber, no business). Despite a 40% mileage cut (from 1941 levels) already ordered for this year, trucks are hauling 10% more tonnage from city to city "than the last available figure for the entire [prewar] fleet...
...federations: the U.S. and Latin America, the United Kingdom and British Dominions, Latin Europe, Middle Europe, Northern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, China, India, Japan, Malaysia. Each federation would have its own constitution, its own government. Neither nations nor federations would have armies-only police forces armed with nothing heavier than machine guns...
...wars seemed to be irresistible. The U.S. hurriedly withdrew its few light tanks from the cavalry and infantry and used them as a nucleus for an Armored Force. Bigger guns were mounted on bigger tanks (while U.S. factories in a prodigious tank program poured out earlier, obsolete models). Still heavier armor and welded construction appeared. By 1943, the U.S. Armored Force had burgeoned to 14 divisions...