Word: ruggedness
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Rugged Outlook
This week 106,000 men were learning how tough the D.T.C. at its toughest can be. Two infantry divisions, one of armor, an air-support command of 3,000 men and 23,000 service troops were winding up the most grueling maneuvers ever held in the U.S. Said an exhausted...
Turkey's importance at this stage of the war is geographical. The rugged plateau of Anatolia, insufficiently equipped though it is with roads or railways, is a bridge from the Middle East to one of Europe's softest spots, the Balkans. The islands just off Turkey's...
Toughness May Be Needed. The Prime Minister's easygoing affability has stood him in good stead with the Allies so far, but toughness may be needed in the future. Turkey had trumps to play in her neutrality. She had chrome to offer Germany (enough to make up Germany'...
But the result of all this redesigning is a turbine which not only uses less fuel but is more rugged and simpler to operate than the old type, breaks down less often, has stood up superbly under the severest combat conditions from Iceland to the tropics. First installed experimentally in...