Word: prone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoners and wounded, 300 planes and 250 tanks in the final 25 days, 300,000 casualties in the whole eight months; that the Red Army had lost only 11,385 dead, 21,090 wounded, 8,300 prisoners, 300 guns, 77 planes, 30 tanks. Perhaps Moscow was still prone to exaggerate the Red Army's earned glory. But the Nazi accounts were proof that the Germans and Rumanians had indeed paid dearly...
...narrow mouth of Trondheim fjord bristles with German guns. The old ship-building wharf, extended for warships, has been blasted by British bombers. Half a mile outside Trondheim, transatlantic U-boats crouch in shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take...
From 150 factories in the Detroit area, 1,028 foremen and supervisors went to a new kind of accident-prevention school last week. Its theory: some men are more prone to industrial accidents than others, and the way to prevent plant accidents is to cull these...
...double-purposed safety campaign. When a worker is involved in a traffic mishap, the plant safety supervisor checks his plant record, if it is bad calls him in for an interview. After his aptitudes and temperament are determined, he is put in a job that better suits him. "Accident-prone" workers are segregated, placed on nonhazardous work...
...straw bosses who went to Wormuth's emergency school last week will learn how to recognize "accident-prone" employes, especially among the thousands of green hands going into war industries...