Word: overlapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allies. It was once an accepted fact that the mountainous borderland between Burma and India was impassable to armies-that the only practical route to India was by sea and air. Yet refugees from Burma filtered through those same mountains, 1,000 and more a day. The mountains which overlap eastern Burma and Siam were also supposed to be well-nigh impassable. Last week Japanese tanks from Siam wormed through the lower ranges, in dark prediction of what they may do on the road to India...
...Saves 13% deadweight in a ship's hull, and proportionally increases the vessel's carrying capacity. Weight reduction comes from elimination of 1) overlap of a ship's plates-welded they lie butt to butt, 2) angle-pieces often required in riveted joints, 3) the rivets themselves...
Burgy Ayres and Tom Cowen, late of Dick Harlow's squad, were on the ice in addition to Summers. Ayres goes into training in September and stays there until late June, as the training periods of football, hockey, and baseball all overlap...
...Office of Facts & Figures is not supposed to overlap these other information mills-its function is to see that they get their stories straight. OFF will try to keep the various Government services from tripping each other up, publishing contradictory figures, at least at the same moment. It will work behind the scenes with the Inter-Departmental Advisory Committee, will report to busy little Fiorello H. LaGuardia, director of the Office of Civilian Defense...
...Navy is fairly well off with the Pacific defense now building. The radii of its patrol planes overlap from Alaska's Dutch Harbor to Samoa's Pago Pago, from Pearl Harbor to Manila. The Navy can cover the Pacific against any surprise attack. Once its reconnaissance pilots have located the enemy, the job is up to the bombers, and to the Pacific and Asiatic Fleets, which are now spread from Hawaii to Manila in a pattern that no Navy man will reveal...