Word: manifoldness
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...slow tempo are more marked in Joseph the Provider than in the previous volumes. It is the most difficult reading of all the Joseph books. Much of Joseph the Provider is given over to recapitulations of parts of the earlier books, with Author Mann's discussions of the manifold meanings of the incidents, the legends, and the motives of the characters...
...beachhead tank losses in France were bigger than anticipated; in addition, Rear Admiral Emory S. Land announced that merchantship production would soon be stepped up). But a scheduled cut in overall war production is at last in view. Then the U.S. will be smack up against many of the manifold problems of reconversion, must face up to the task of supplying jobs to those laid off by the cutbacks and shutdowns...
...Resistant France. Until invasion lifts the curtain, the many elements which make up French resistance-groups still bearing the old party names, saboteur bands, the maquis, the manifold underground press, millions & millions of individual Frenchmen-cannot be seen as a clear whole. But through the Assembly, through the Committee, and through Charles de Gaulle, resistant France constantly guides and limits the acts of the Algiers Government...
After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army had to find fuel to power the big bombers winging north in defense of Alaska and the Lend-Lease planes streaking towards the Soviet Union. Officially the manifold project dubbed Canol was proposed to Canada June 27, 1942, started two days later. First step was to expand Norman Wells, an oil field 100 miles south of the Arctic in the great Canadian Northwest. To get Norman crude to a new refinery at Whitehorse, the Army stretched a four-inch surface pipeline 585 miles across the uncharted, dangerous Mackenzie mountain range. The final link...
...laid down thus far, the mechanics of control are manifold. Already the consular and diplomatic service is being revised to place expert market analysts over the world. From them the national factory would learn continuously what the world wants to buy, in approximate quantities. Haphazard manufacture would be eliminated. Workers would be shifted as the need arises. Imports would be watched to see that not too much of the nation's payroll goes for luxuries. Manufacturers in financial straits would be helped by tax money when advisable...