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Word: riel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good. The limited extent of U.S. matériel losses was most heartening, made complete liars out of the Japanese High Command. Lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Havoc at Honolulu | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...British have brought their Middle Eastern strength to a dozen divisions-but less than half of them are properly equipped for offensive action. British matériel is being hurried straight through the Mediterranean. All the while U.S. stuff is trickling in - Tomahawks, Marylands, Chrysler tanks, ammunition, trucks, spare parts. The British will have to try, sooner or later, to open up Tobruk: two-thirds of all the motor transport they had in North Africa were trapped there in the retreat last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATER: Eleven O'Clock in the Desert | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

They opened with blows which had become familiar even to the civilians of the world. The airmen executed "rolling attacks" on Russian concentrations, matériel dumps, communications. Other bombers Blitzed cities (see map, p. 24). The tricks and the gadgets were all used: fog screens, pontoons, tanks, parachutes, flares, flamethrowers, motorcycles, tommy guns. Pioneers exploded casemates with experienced precision. Engineers built bridges where they were needed. Infantry advanced fluidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: How Long For Russia? | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...Lost more men and matériel than Mussolini in Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 30, 1941 | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Japan's Army of good field commanders, indifferent staff officers and middling matériel has not lacked publicity. China's Army is the army nobody knows. The world at large does not know it, because the small corps of foreign correspondents in China feel they must stick close to big cities to get big stories. Chinese politicians are ignorant of the war front because they consider their job to be in Chungking. The war front is days away from Chungking except by plane, and China has no planes to spare for junkets. Even foreign military observers almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: The Army Nobody Knows | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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