Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans clearly expect an onslaught from the southeast. For months now defense workers have been . . . fortifying the Greek coasts and some of the islands. ... In Bulgaria the mountain passes have recently been fortified. . . . [The Nazi] aim in the Balkans must be to defend Rumania for its oil and to prevent a break-through into the great plain of Central Europe. . . . The Germans can hope that the Allies, after exhausting themselves in expensive attacks on the outposts, would have to face a heavy counteroffensive from the air and heavily mechanized armies operating from well prepared and equipped supply bases...
...enemy hove into sight - two capital ships at two miles' separation, a destroyer screening them. Vision blotted out, the Clyde had to be brought up until the periscope standards were awash. The heavy seas made her too lively. Tons of extra ballast had to be shipped to prevent her from breaking surface. The Clyde maneuvered, got around the destroyer, came "face to face" with one of the enemy. It was the Scharnhorst. The Clyde steadied. The order to fire was given. The men waited - it seemed longer than the 15 days and nights of skulking - for two minutes...
...torpedo weighs over a ton. When the torpedoes were about to run, the ship had to take in more ballast to prevent her from "bobbing like a cork to the surface." These extra tons now carried her down steeply. She could not be checked. The needle would never stop. She was well down in the danger zone when she pulled up. "The pressure squeezed down on the hull, feeling cunningly for some weakness. . . . Loud noises issued from the metal. . . . The startled eyes of the men watched a four-inch solid pillar start to bend as the weight...
...water are needed to manufacture a ton of ingot steel, 236 gallons are needed to make one gallon of alcohol; 125,000 gallons are needed to test each airplane engine. Present rationing plans are mild, would limit the digging of wells only by corporations and municipalities. The aim: prevent unnecessary digging, preserve the underground water supply, insure the U.S. against a prolonged drought...
...creative impulses that state control shackles, Professor Laski labors under the desperate fear that the end of experiment will mean a reaction of exhaustion and apathy. He insists that capitalist economy be removed while the war is in progress; if it is not, he believes that nothing can prevent disillusionment, upheaval and violence. "Totalitarian war compels men to live on the heights [where] they can see vistas which become obscure once more when, as the challenge is overcome, they descend again into the valley. . . . Great leadership would take advantage of [the present] mood...