Word: outbuilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against these losses, the U.S. balanced its own and found the balance in its favor. Besides the Arizona it has lost a cruiser (Houston), seven destroyers, three submarines, a few auxiliary craft. Inferior in tonnage and gunpower when the war began, sure to be outbuilt from now on, the Japanese were losing at a rate they could ill afford. But it was still a rate the U.S. Navy must sharply increase before the Japanese Navy is crippled...
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