Word: hoardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pipe Down? Thus, for five hours, Senator Wheeler spoke to empty seats and took his heckling. Though his evidence was hearsay, he had made three points: 1) many a Government bureau is overstaffed, 2) many a war plant, particularly those with cost-plus contracts, has used occupational deferments to hoard unnecessary workers, 3) if U.S. manpower were used more efficiently, fewer fathers would be drafted. But Senator Wheeler had changed no one's mind about his bill to defer fathers. At the unanimous urging of Army, Navy, Selective Service and Manpower Commission, Congress will do nothing to stop...
...Army's estimated 275 wellarmed, well-led divisions with any chance of success. Today, Russia's might and the Allied threat in the west make upon him two stern demands: i) He must establish a strong defense line somewhere on the Eastern Front, and 2) he must hoard his precious reserves of men and materiel...
Because of the great industrial demand, Congress three months ago authorized the Treasury to sell or lend war industry part of its silver hoard not needed for currency backing - under WPB restrictions. The Treasury has released 700,000,000 oz., a half-billion dollars' worth...
...discussion of the nation's first major postwar economic problem advanced one step last week. Jesse H. Jones, who bosses all the major Federal lending agencies, discussed what should be done with the U.S. Government's vast hoard of war plants and equipment...
...woods and valleys of the Belgorod-Kursk sector where, in the first fortnight of July, Hitler's vast offensive drowned in its own blood. When this defeat was coupled with the Allied moves in the Mediterranean. Hitler knew he had to shorten his Eastern front and hoard his reserves of men and guns...