Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wait for strength, air power would get its second, and probably greatest, test. By last week the Army Air Forces had mined Tokyo harbor (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and stepped up the Superfortress fire attacks on Japan's industry to 500-plane strength - equivalent in bomb tonnage to all but a few of the heaviest air strikes against Germany. The attacks would grow heavier. If there was anything left of Tokyo or Nagasaki or Nagoya or of any of Japan's industrial plant by the time the U.S. Army and Marines moved in, it would not be through lack...
...Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, commander of the Fifteenth Army. Up to this week General Gerow's occupation army consisted mostly of himself and a headquarters staff. The Fifteenth will be fleshed out gradually from units already in Europe or to be sent there. Estimated "permanent" strength of the occupation force...
Very few American moving pictures have understood so poetically such matters as the beauty and meaning of lighting the first fire in a new home; of using all your strength and sense in hard work and watching the tangible result; of cooking and eating the meat you have hunted and killed; or the anguish of watching all your hopes struck flat by one spasm...
...Business, the professions, politics and education have likewise been ruled by an authoritarian system in which, to assert and defend his status, a German bullies his inferiors, kowtows to his superiors. "The German alternately commands and scrapes." Unlike Americans and Englishmen, who consider it unsporting to exert their full strength against weaker opponents, Germans are traditionally most brutal and ruthless toward their inferiors. In their relations with other nations, they have been alternately arrogant and afflicted with a persecution complex, a condition resembling paranoia...
...will help ease the strain on Pacific shipping. Last week in Manhattan Frank J. Taylor, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute, appraised the task of supplying our rapidly expanding forces in the Pacific. His estimate: exclusive of Navy needs, when our service personnel and fighting men reach a strength of 3,000,000, a fleet of 180 deep-laden tankers must sail from West Coast ports every month on the long, slow trek across the vast Pacific...