Word: rim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success Means the Ash Can. But that 175,000-ton gap might make the difference between success and defeat. Unless every U.S. citizen conserves his tires, unless the Army & Navy cut their needs to the rim, the nation's rubber reserves may be nonexistent by Christmas. Said Rubber Czar William Jeffers: "The country is not yet out of the critical stage." But Rubberman Jeffers, no crier of "Wolf! Wolf!," was optimistic, gaily predicted that U.S. factories would be producing 850,000 tons of synthetic a year within a twelvemonth-more than enough for all military needs...
Rommel was improving a position in which he already held all the advantage. He and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim, commander of the Axis forces in the north, occupied a rim of commanding heights from Mateur south to the Mareth Line. Behind them was the flat coastal plain over which they could move rapidly against any vulnerable Allied point. General Dwight Eisenhower was forced to operate across a muddy terrain at the tough end of supply lines some 400 miles long...
Passes & Pillboxes. Eisenhower's problem, complicated by the Axis attack, was to break through the Axis rim of defense on to the faster, smoother track of the plain. There were a number of roads through: the Ousseltia Valley, Sened, Faïd Pass. Until Rommel's determined Panzers can be rolled back, Faïd Pass was now effectually closed to the Allies...
...adaptation of their main product-hearing aids. An impression is taken of the outer folds and canal entrance of the ear. From this cast a polished plastic plug is made which extends into the auditory canal, is locked in place by a lip which fits over the helix (rim of the external ear). Light and clean, the plug is easily inserted with a twisting motion, cannot be pushed in too far, leaves sufficient leeway to equalize air pressures...
...been registered in the structure of the film since its first exposure. The iriscope is a simple transparent disk that fits over the projector's lens and is dyed with the colors of the spectrum in concentric circles from blue on the inside to red on the rim...