Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October 1941 he promised not only that Moscow and Leningrad would fall "within a matter of weeks," but (remembering Napoleon) that the Red Army was beaten and would "never rise again." Moscow and Leningrad stood firm...
Another airman was a less frequent visitor: dour, taciturn, officially ruthless Lieut. General Joseph McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, whose rise was in some ways symbolic of the Air Forces' new prestige in the Army. McNarney has a job of the first importance which might have gone to a groundsman. As General Marshall's trusted deputy, he alone is empowered to act in the name of the Chief on many matters which otherwise would sponge up General Marshall's crowded hours...
...possibility, a probability and a fact. The possibility is that Hitler may take the Iraq-Caucasian-Iranian oilfields, leaving the United Nations totally dependent on the Western Hemisphere for oil. The probability is that gasoline and fuel oil rationing will be more than offset by a huge rise in military oil consumption-as new armadas of U.S. planes take to the sky, as new armies of U.S. tanks take to the field, as the second-ocean Navy and the seven-seas merchant marine take to the water. The fact is that U.S. oilfields are being drained...
...even in an extreme emergency the U.S. could not get more than one-fifth this oil in the next few years. (The U.S. consumed over 1.2 billion barrels of oil for 1939's peaceable purposes.) Four other oilmen backed him up, declared a 25 to 50? a barrel rise over the present average $1.15 level would be necessary to revive wildcatting...
...Surprisingly didn't rain. Moon came out. . . . About flooded out of bed by rise...