Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile colleges and college students are left, almost without plans at the mercy of a new juggernaut draft bill. The ERC is now closed and its promised reopening for those in special training may very well result in the delay, the arguments, and the local draft board whims that characterized the previous inadequate Selective Service system. Meanwhile draft boards are hot on the trail of 'teen-agers who may be turned into infantry privates instead of valuable technicians because of this gap in the planning...
...Bloc. But in the Senate there was a man with the courage of conviction, a man from a heavily agricultural State, and worse, a man running for reelection this year, Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat. Senator Brown set himself in the path of the farm-bloc juggernaut. The 250-odd farm lobbyists had the votes-but Senator Brown had logic and virtue on his side...
Stalin had reason to be proud of his whole nation and its Red Army, but he had equal reason to fear that the German Juggernaut, as in France, could not be stopped until too many wellsprings of Russian oil, iron and food supplies had been lost, too many waterways and railroads had been cut, too many Russian soldiers had bled to death on the southern steppes. The next few weeks would tell...
...before a third, then fought back again from Salonika. Only a year ago a revolution in Yugoslavia, where the dream of Balkan federation was becoming an actual as well as a political fact, deposed the pro-Nazi regent Prince Paul, and Serbian General Dusan Simovich courageously challenged the juggernaut of Adolf Hitler. In Draja Mihailovich's mountains the challenge persists today...
When Hitler's war machine crushed France in ten bone-shattering days, the U.S. looked at its own little Army, nervously debated Lend-Lease. Now a leaner U.S. had its own war machine. Hitler's juggernaut, poised for spring, would soon be only the second greatest. Guarded U.S. estimates placed Nazi war spending at $35,000,000,000 a year, close to the absolute German ceiling of manpower and materials. The U.S., said WPB, is spending at the rate of $30,000,000,000 a year-and just getting started. Soon the U.S. will pass Hitler; next year...