Word: maw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limb. The new budget contains the smallest requests for ordinary peacetime funds of any one since Herbert Hoover was peeping cautiously around corners. Of the 109 billions asked by the President, only four and a half are to go for regular expenses; every other nickel will go into the maw of Mars. Except for statutory outlays, such as debt retirement and social security payments, every civil agency except agriculture has been cut to the bone. The case of agriculture is simply explained, for Congress itself, frightened silly by the farm bloc, passed legislation raising the parity payments...
...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...
...Army & Navy could not bring themselves to Mr. May's cocky pitch. In Russia, Africa, China and in the Battle of the Atlantic, the United Nations waited in the maw of danger...
China's news seemed to be all bad. In the eastern theater, in Chekiang Province, where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...
...spur line into the parched maw of Free China would solve the problem of getting help to Chiang Kai-shek-if he was still there when the spur was built...