Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home in Canada. Only $117 million went to all Africa. Of the $5 billion that went to Europe, $2 billion went to Germany and England, nearly $2 billion more to France, Italy, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. The parts of Europe most in need of development shared the meager remainder. U.S. investments in backward, ambitious Poland were $177 million by 1930; British and French investments there were $345 million. Of the mere $1 billion placed in all Asia, $445 million was in Japan alone...
...fell. By 1942 it had converted to making the Buccaneer, a not-so-hot dive-bomber, and is about to start making the Vought Corsair, an excellent Navy fighter. But the biggest trouble is not with the quality of Brewster planes, but with the quantity, which is a very meager military secret. Thus far the Axis has had little to fear from Brewster...
This mood had solid roots: many Americans wanted to see not year-old pictures of one gallant but pitifully meager raid, but fresh, day-old pictures of raid after raid that leveled Japan into a shambles where not an altar, not a paper house, not a cherry tree still stood whole, and where nothing moved in the ruins...
Some fifteen years ago, the department had its beginning when a professor, feeling the need for just such a service, donated the necessary equipment. Since he was the department's founder and head, he reaped the profits, which were, at that time, very meager...
...Senate's Truman Committee sought firsthand facts. They were meager. One truth emerged: Government shared with both management and labor responsibility for a tragic wartime manpower seepage; legislators could not place the blame at labor's door alone...