Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weather did not halt the German ersatz air force of pilotless V-bombs, and by last week Allied commanders were willing to concede that the V-bombs had true military value when coupled with an offensive. The Germans fired salvos of V15 and V-25, and a shorter-ranged, smaller version of V-2 as they would have used heavy artillery in advance of an assault. Their effectiveness was obvious: even haphazard strikes could do military damage aplenty in junction towns crowded with men and materials. The enemy claimed to have poured them on Antwerp, Brussels...
...Absentia. In Trenton, N.J., Civil Service Commissioner William S. Carpenter suggested that leaves of absence should be shorter, cited the example of two Jersey City policemen, on official leave, who had been serving as county investigators for the last ten years...
...average Jap soldier (5 ft. 3 in., 117½lbs.), is five inches shorter, some 28 lbs. lighter than the average G.I. Nevertheless he can lift a 150-lb. weight to his back without spreading his legs; a Jap battalion can march more than 20 miles a day; special patrols have been known to cover 60 miles on foot between midnight and the next afternoon...
Boys have a 25% higher prenatal and infant death rate, a five-year shorter life expectancy. And although more boys than girls are conceived, fewer boys grow to maturity. Result: the U.S. is approaching the European condition of a large surplus of females over males-in 1930 there were 1,125,000 more white men than women in the U.S.; today there are 331,000 more women. Among Negroes, the "relative surplus of women is even larger...
Ships Too. As Japan is pushed into her Inner defense citadel, her supply lines become shorter. Navy Under-Secretary Ralph Bard said last fortnight that Japan may even have a shipping surplus now to transport the leavings of her once-great Empire traffic. But not even the shortest supply lines can withstand the loss of about 600 small and large ships which the Empire suffered in September. Most of Japan's losses occurred in the Philip pines, where Mitscher's flyers sank 205 vessels of all sizes, damaged over 200 more...