Word: inferiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This double use of air power was not suddenly invented in the last fortnight. It was in evidence at El Alamein. It had been developing for a long time, ever since the inferior Allies had withdrawn on many fronts under Stuka harassment. It was an elaboration of German methods (which have long stressed the tactical air force) and an amalgam of U.S. and British methods...
...casualties and seriously delayed the offensive. His lines were extended so far it would have taken a week to send a postcard from one end to the other. Rightly or wrongly, Fredendall became the goat of the U.S. defeat, although he later turned and with a vastly inferior force drove the enemy from the Pass. As commander of the Second Army he will be promoted to lieutenant general...
...presence of a strong force, even though inferior, near the scene of operations, will produce a momentous effect upon the enemy's action...
...decisions, hard on the little fellows, were a windfall to speculators in senior bonds (equipment trusts, underlying liens, first mortgages). For, after the Court had barred the door to junior security-holders, it then declared that senior bondholders (who get inferior securities under most reorganization plans) should get compensation for the loss of their senior rights. Said Justice William Orville Douglas, who wrote the Milwaukee decision: senior bondholders should receive "equitable compensation, qualitative or quantitative...
...accurate shooting of Freshman Wally Sears, the Junior Varsity hockey team topped an inferior Yale sextet 9 to 3 at the Boston Garden Saturday afternoon. Defense man Milt Stearns and wing Dave Baldwin followed Sears with two goals apiece...