Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consolidated B32, plus the newest versions of the battle-tested Republic P47 (Thunderbolt) and North American P-51 (Mustang) are the planes with which the Air Forces will mainly wage the Pacific air war. A brand-new type also to be included in the Air Forces front-line strength will be Lockheed's slick new jet-plane, the P-80 (TIME, March 12), on which veteran fighter pilots are now being trained. Of all the older standbys of the European Avar only a few Flying Fortresses will fight in the Pacific frontline, after redeployment has been completed...
...pigeyed leader, Captain Kramer. During the month of March, 17,000 people died of starvation, and they still die at the rate of 300 to 350 every 24 hours, far beyond the help of the British authorities, who are doing all possible to save as many as still have strength to react to treatment...
...would defend the Roosevelt ideals "with all my strength and with all my heart...
Whether Franklin Roosevelt consciously led the U.S. to war, or hoped to keep the U.S. out by a daring support of its periled friends, will be historians' debating ground for years to come. The strength of the opposition and the political daring of what he did, could be measured by the one-vote margin in the House, when the draft came up for extension four months before Pearl Harbor...
...From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...