Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheap. In many small actions along the front ground losses were constant. The Russians said they killed 2,000 Germans near Orel. Moscow said that the Luftwaffe, in seven weeks of May and June, had lost 3,595 aircraft, the Russians 987. Just how to evaluate these claims, the outer world did not know.* If literally true, they indicated that actions larger than any announced to the public had been in progress, that the Luftwaffe was helpless and decimated, that the Germans had no chance of survival, much less of victory, in Russia...
Japanese strategy in the south Pacific is both clear and intelligent: to hold every inch of this outer rim as long as possible; to make every Allied move as expensive as possible. But Jap tactics in applying this strategy have been wasteful. Last week they put on one of their worst performances of the war, and paid...
...Bronx. Built on small concrete piers, it is unique in having its framework, like a snail's, on the outside. The structure is composed of two practically independent parts: 1) an arch-shaped roof made of insulated panels and supported by posts; 2) rooms, formed of demountable inner & outer panels* which can be shuffled around at will under the roof. Thus the structure has no weight-carrying walls...
Hainan Island is an important intermediary base for planes en route between Japanese factories and the South Seas. Yet it was practically defenseless: the Japs had stripped interior bases to concentrate defense strength on the outer rim of their sprawling empire. The presence of long-range bombers in China may compel the Japs to reallocate some of their defensive strength to the interior. But, to be telling, bombing raids must be sustained, and in greater force than the Allies have so far been able to assemble and supply in blockaded China...
...promised that any Allied invasion of the Continent this year would be confined to the outer circle of the European fortress. With either victory or peace with Russia before Christmas, he argued that the German forces would be sufficient to keep the Continent inviolable indefinitely. Britain and America would, therefore, be forced to compromise...