Word: ponderer
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...estimate, railroad funded debt will be down to $8 billions, almost a third less than in 1932, when fixed charges were 30% higher than railway operating income. With this new financial freedom of action assured, airlines and bus lines full of plans for a postwar passenger boom could well ponder the warning words ot the jubilant railroad man who told Railway Age last week: "Our competitors who are anticipating a walkover in taking traffic from the railways are in for a most unpleasant surprise...
...announcements, Viacheslav Molotov did not see correspondents. He and Joseph Stalin had much to ponder; for one thing, if the agreements meant all that they seemed to mean, nationalist Russia had agreed to go international again, in full accord with capitalist powers...
...left margin enough for the imponderables. They had miscalculated and might still be miscalculating Russian strength. They had overestimated their own air power, had not foreseen the emergence of British-American air power. They had been caught short by their weaknesses in southern Europe. Adolf Hitler might well ponder the words of Prussian Karl von Clausewitz, father of modern strategy...
...power. The U.S., Britain and China together may, if they will, confront Russia with the kind of war and postwar combination which Russians respect. Given the assurance that the anti-Japanese coalition intends to beat Japan to her knees, and then to consolidate that victory, the Russians may well ponder the postwar position of the U.S. in the Pacific...
Dispensers of Death. Revenge, and how they got it, is Author Wolfert's story. Not that the men of Torpedo 8 were romantically vengeful: they were "astonishingly practical, very realistic and hardheaded." When asked to volunteer for near-suicide missions, they and their fellow airmen would withdraw to ponder upon the matter. They volunteered "only when, independently of their officers, they decide [d] the possible gain [was] worth the probable loss." They knew that launching torpedoes from the bellies of their fat little craft meant "going in fast and low and drawing their planes across the mouths...