Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excess refinery capacity now to take the strain off overloaded U.S. refineries; 3) the U.S. expects to use South American oil to fuel any large-scale offensive in the Pacific because production in California, now fueling the Pacific operations, cannot be increased sufficiently to supply a big push...
SHADOWS ON THE WALL - Mary Reisner - Dodd, Mead ($2). The accidental fall that killed ardently admired Lawyer Frost looked like a purposeful push after investigation by a district at torney with a weakness for sultry females. Several of the murderer's house guests are implicated, also an ex-gangster neighbor - who becomes the catalytic agent that settles a seething emotional brew. The first murder is self-solving; a second death is anybody's guess. Tantalizing, turbulent...
...ambiguity in British and American military policy in the Far East. It proved that the British were now 1) willing to undertake a major campaign against the Japs, 2) glad to assume responsibility for the campaign, 3) committed, by the choice of a young and vigorous commander, to push the campaign as forcefully as possible. The Churchill line became one of savage verbal pounding...
Main Allied South Pacific base lies at the end of a 6,000-mile supply line across the Pacific Ocean. From there it takes cargo ships another three and a half to four days, zigzagging through sub-infested waters, to reach advance bases. The Munda push, small as it was compared to the invasion of Sicily, required months of preparation. The Allies were able to use 3,267 bottoms in the Mediterranean. The Navy had to make the best of a few score preparing for the Munda operation, shuttling them back & forth to move a load that could have been...
...went ahead anyway. They intend to keep right on going ahead, plumping for their plan before a conference of Federal Reserve Bank officials in Chicago this week, before Congressional committees. Both feel that there are no insurmountable differences between the U.S. and British viewpoints. But the revisions seem to push the U.S. and Britain farther apart...