Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's bases near the Philippines are open to the kind of amphibious warfare-land, sea and air attack-that the U.S. Navy has long discussed. Flanking her southward march on the right is Hong Kong, a better-equipped base than the Philippines' Cavite. Ahead of her lie Singapore, the stout secondary bases at Surabaya, Darwin and Amboina. This week Japan was pecking at some of these places, but she had not yet apparently risked an all-out attack on any. And before she could hope to grab and hold the Indies, she must reduce Singapore...
...halt these giants, but it is not always possible to have them in the right place at the right time. Despite the fine showing of light American-built tanks against the German heavyweights, it is obvious that when huge machines face only light ones or infantry the advantage must lie with the heavy machines...
...Saves 13% deadweight in a ship's hull, and proportionally increases the vessel's carrying capacity. Weight reduction comes from elimination of 1) overlap of a ship's plates-welded they lie butt to butt, 2) angle-pieces often required in riveted joints, 3) the rivets themselves...
...emergency." Although there may be no great single new industry to spark the post-war transition, there will be much rebuilding to do ("the American production plant is obsolete"), many a new opportunity. General Motors, he revealed, is already developing a bank of new or improved products-what lie calls G.M.'s "A.H." (after Hitler) program...
...October three or four vessels used to lie off Basra port in the Persian Gulf, waiting for the packers to send out the first full cargoes of dates. Within a few hours of each other they would get away in the annual race for New York. Usually a British Strick and a German Hansa liner vied for the lead; first one in with his 5,000 tons of dates got a premium of about $1.75 per ton. And Hills Brothers, biggest U.S. date importer (Dromedary), gave a handsome loving cup to the winning captain...