Word: indirections
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...indirect defense may be the enormous cost of Mot pulk. German infantry masses are now exposed to enemy fire as they have never been before. Already Hitler's Munitions Minister Albert Speer has called upon German manufacturers for more & more steel to fill the Russian maw. If the Allies could find any encouragement in Mot pulk, it was the indication that Hitler's generals had committed his overstrained stockpiles and factories to a new and endless race for armament...
...tons of steel are now under allocation for "indirect military use"-a term no one can define except to say that the Army & Navy have some use in mind...
Here Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, showed him the original charter of Harvard College, and under the indirect lighting of the exhibit room Prado was presented with a part of the Washington elm by Mayor John J. Corcoran...
...Direct action by air forces in battle is problematical because the troops in combat are so disposed as to receive blows and to hit back. It is through indirect action that the most efficient role of aviation is exerted...
...hostile Senate and a suspicious House gang up on the two agencies, the direct and indirect losses cannot be quickly or easily recouped. It is difficult to resist the urge to prune a group whose members do not vote, but it may be wise to remember that NYA and CCC beneficiaries will not be minors forever...