Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dimensions for uniforms to clothe the average draftee. And what man could be more valuable to the nation's war effort than the anthropologist, who, by virtue of his explorations in the Far East and South Seas, is an authority on regions over which the United Nations must regain control in order to win the present conflict...
...German was established in depth. Routing of front-line troops was a long way from the victory that Timoshenko needed to take Kharkov and regain the key of the Ukraine's eastern communication system...
Rumania's peasant leader Juliu Maniu and famed elder statesman Constantin Bratianu did their barking in the form of a memorandum to Premier Antonescu. "We must take precautions," they said, "so that our frontiers are protected and see to it that we regain Transylvania, of which we have been robbed. . . . If you are not convinced that the German Army is able to defeat the frequently annihilated Russian Army without the few precious Rumanian divisions, then you cannot believe at all in the final victory of Germany." A few days later Maniu supplied Antonescu with "proof" of Hungary...
...army of some 400,000 men. Hungary's war lords flatly told Premier Laszlo Bardossy that this was impossible. Then the Wilhelmstrasse tried to blackmail Hungary by threatening to "rectify" the 1940 Vienna award which returned Transylvania to Hungary. Having struggled most of his public life to regain Hungary's lost territories, Dr. Bardossy tried to follow the example of his predecessor, Count Paul Teleki, who, when pressed too hard by the Germans, put a bullet through his head. (Dr. Bardossy was prevented...
...single casting machine will turn out several gun tubes in the time it takes to forge one," says Case, and machining time is cut 25 to 40%. "Reduction in weight is considerable," he adds, "and is used in many guns to regain mobility...