Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk and Army Nurse Corps Superintendent Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield scrape the bottom of the barrel for nurses [TIME, Nov. 20], let them ponder the fact that there are several thousand registered men nurses in this country legally denied membership in the Army Nurse Corps...
Rundstedt's plan by now was clear. He had made a historic throw of the dice and his prize was time. If successful in disrupting the Allies' armies, he could win six months-six months to scrape up combat manpower, while German scientists and technicians hurried to develop their new V-weapons...
...Lend-Lease were received in London with cheers, tempered with the sober realization that the British bankroll is no longer fat enough to purchase in the open market all the raw materials she will need. By combing the lining of her moneybags Britain might be able to scrape together enough money to pay cash for the first few consignments of raw materials her factories must have...
...another, the enemy had managed to scrape up a surprising amount of air power for the Philippines. That, in turn, may well have slowed down U.S. Navy plans by forcing the fleet to keep extra carrier-based planes in the area; last week a carrier task force was back at the old job of beating up airfields around Manila, smashing shipping in the harbor. In one operation around Luzon, Admiral Halsey's flyers sank 20 Jap ships, shot down 72 planes...
Most of the German strength in the west is now committed to the fighting lines. The longer the blow is delayed, the longer Hitler will have to scrape up and train his ersatz divisions, to toughen his defenses in depth. On the other hand, a real breakthrough might tear the present front hopelessly open, might furnish the momentum for the knockout wallop in the west...