Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spur line into the parched maw of Free China would solve the problem of getting help to Chiang Kai-shek-if he was still there when the spur was built...
North of Rangoon the advance was two-pronged. Moving along the rail line to Mandalay and the Burma Road's stump, one army approached the black ruins of Toungoo. Another went forward along a rail spur and highway toward Prome (home of one of Kipling's famed Ladies), an unhealthy town of 30,000 in a bowl of pagoda-topped hills. Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung. The British were tired. The somber phrase, "delaying actions," popped up in dispatches day after day. One day there was action near Nyaunglebin, south of Toungoo; next...
...decades India's chief exports have remained the same (cotton, jute, oilseeds, tea, tobacco). Yet India has iron-ore reserves three-fourths the size of U.S. deposits, huge reserves of coal, manganese, bauxite and many other minerals. Despite this raw wealth, Indian steel production, even under the spur of war, is under 1% of world production. India has a hydroelectric potential second only to that of the U.S., but only 3% is used...
...peace no less than in war, made clear that he proposed to be the head of the opposition to Churchill. With Englishmen saddened by their own defeats and praying for Red victories, Sir Stafford had a beautiful tactical position. Whether he would be merely a useful goad to spur Britain on, or whether he represented the coming Socialist revolution, remained to be seen. And there would be no more vitally interested spectators than the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution...
...that every auto plant in Detroit is geared to war production, last week held his first press conference. It was unexciting. Said Mr. Kanzler: "I am here only to serve as the catalyst"-which meant, said hard-boiled newspapermen, that he would be the gadfly to spur dunderheaded laggards into speedup. Much of the U.S. public had expected Kanzler to announce resoundingly that the automobile industry would forthwith be converted to defense. But Detroit knew that the industry was already converted...