Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With test tube and spectroscope, the metallurgists reconstructed a revealing picture of arms-making inside the Axis countries. The Germans started the war with meager supplies of copper, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium, manganese-all considered vital for war. They showed great skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...
...notorious Bilibid, 800 prisoners had survived on a meager ration of wormy corn, rice and soybeans. But they thought this was not so bad as life in the "hellhole" camp at Cabanatuan. Survivors liberated from Cabanatuan by U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas told of the menu there two years ago: rats, cats, dogs, worms and frogs they caught hopping from latrines...
...moved down Avenue Rizal civilians mobbed our vehicles, cheering and offering us portions of their meager food supplies. The women were weeping while the men saluted and children squealed in delight. But the Santo Tomas reception was even more delirious...
Thus, reasoned NATD, cigaret-hoarders may be lured back to one source of supply where they can expect a steady though meager ration (NATD anticipated a daily supply of 15 cigarets per person for 1945). NATO's 1,200,000-odd U.S. retailers (except those serving transients only) will follow the plan-or they won't get cigarets. The rest will depend on the conscience of the nation's smokers...
...bitter confusion of the German breakthrough the Army clamped down a censorship thicker than the pea-soup fog that shrouded the great German counterattack. Communiqués were as much as 48 hours behind the event. When they came they were meager and vague. Correspondents blew...