Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of Italy will rise again. The question of their attitude toward Germany, toward every one of the Axis satellite nations, may arise at any moment with equal unexpectedness. To prevent blunders, Roosevelt and Churchill need to know their answers in advance...
Objective. All the Russian pronouncements indicate that the Red objective is now to destroy the enemy army. Said the Army's Red Star: "Our main task is to prevent the enemy from escaping and to destroy their armed forces. When these are smashed, the fortresses will fall by themselves...
...Germany exhausted herself trying to carry the war to Russia on a 1,500-mile battle line, Russia, in spite of her greater manpower, may also lose it by the same means unless the battle wisdom of the Russian Army is great enough to prevent...
...military authorities stock the banks with invasion money. If the bank has been destroyed, the military sets up its own bank, circulates the currency by buying supplies, paying for land for new airports, paying laborers and U.S. troops (at a fixed rate of 100 lira to the dollar). To prevent inflation, a close check is kept on the amount issued. What the U.S. army spends on payrolls and purchases will be lopped from its appropriations back home...
...workmen above water. Bulkheads of timber and concrete were set in place to divide the ship into compartments, permitting the use of controlled pumping. The plan was to roll the vessel upright, resting on the port bilge keel. By pumping and flooding, movement could be controlled and slowed to prevent a sudden lurch when the ship broke free...