Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipyards had not yet begun to feel the worst of the strain. Last January Franklin Roosevelt called for 200 more ships, of 10,000 deadweight tons...
...Broadsides. Her firing tests began a few hours after she was out of sight of land. Like test pilots feeling out a new airplane, her builders and crew tried her slowly, firing each gun singly. There were no targets. Between salvos, technicians topside and below took readings from strain and blast gauges, many another gadget that would show how North Carolina writhed when her guns...
There were signs that the strain was beginning to tell. A German spokesman paid tribute to the "heroism" of German civilians, admitted that there were some "heavily bombed towns in western and northern Germany," and, somewhat tardily, considering the record of the Luftwaffe, remarked: "All this bombing of civilians could have been avoided by really humane warfare...
Words. The blunt phrases of French Fascism's aged favorite were in the megalomaniac strain of all dictators. "In 1917," rumbled he, "I put an end to mutinies. In 1940 I put a period to our rout. Today it is from you yourselves that I want to save you." There was nothing unusual about the rules that Marshal Pétain announced-they came right out of the common totalitarian rule book...
Consolidated has been interested chiefly in seismographic oil prospecting, which involves much the same technique of studying sound waves and reflections as Sperry's vibration-strain instruments. Now at its plant in Pasadena, Calif., Consolidated will use Sperry's patents, machinery and tools on a royalty basis, fill Sperry orders with Sperry products, do research work. Thus Sperry, already one of the prime users of subcontracting to speed its $108,000,000 worth of defense orders and to bring small manufacturers into the defense picture, will be able to switch even more engineers and plant space to work...