Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fill their offensive pool of men and arms in Africa, the Germans had had to get their convoys past the tiny, bristling island of Malta. Their constant raiding had kept Malta busy protecting itself while the convoys got by, but they had lost hundreds & hundreds of planes. Their weakness in the air now made it look as if they had paid almost too much...
With the manpower shortage getting worse each week, OPA worried about where to find 90,000 men or women able enough for this vast new police job. OPA worried still more over the huge new patronage pool that such a staff creates...
...some weeks the Japanese have been building up two great troop pools. One is at Hankow in central China, the other at Saigon in Indo-China. The latter might be used against India or Australia. But if the Japanese drives now under way are successful, both might be drawn on to crush China-the southern pool to drive toward Chungking from the south; the central pool to push a drive through Sian, severing northern from middle China and cutting off Chiang from his Russian friends. These two moves, undertaken together, would constitute a giant pincers movement on Chungking...
...that end ODT's General Order No. 3 goes into effect next week. No commercial truck (with certain exceptions) can leave on any trip unless it is fully loaded, nor can it head home again less than 75% loaded. The truckers are now setting up regional committees to pool equipment and freight, maximize loads per truck in both directions. The number of trips on certain routes will be cut. By such cooperation, and with the greatest attention to maintenance, highway operators grimly aim to get a million miles of life out of each truck, 125,000 miles (with recapping...
...aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...