Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons a year by the middle of 1943.* But he was almost alone in his optimism. Leon Henderson bluntly advised a House Committee, considering a suggestion to exempt Washington taxis from tire restrictions, that the nation's largest rubber stockpile in history (600,000 tons) would not stretch more than seven months if normal consumption were permitted. Harsh were his facts on tires: in the face of a normal demand for 35,000,000 annually, the U.S. could provide 9,000,000 or fewer...
...drudgery, guarding a stretch of the California coastline. Said Private Gerald Reynolds: "[On New Year's Eve] I went on watch at 6 that evening, with a complete outfit-tin hat, gas mask, canteen, rifle and bayonet and nothing but water in the canteen either. Me and another guy were out with a Doberman dog patrolling a section of Terminal Island shoreline. Everything was completely blacked out and it was raining to beat the band. We had raincoats on but even then after six hours of it we got pretty wet. You could hear harbor waters swishing...
...dawn as last week began, 56 ships stood off Lingayen Gulf, gateway to the broad, fertile Pampanga plain leading south 120 miles between mountain ranges toward Manila. Long strategists' pick for the deadly thrust, Lingayen was heavily defended. But the Jap moved in, attempting landings on a stretch from Lingayen northward. A heavy U.S. force under Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright was waiting...
...plan to consolidate all Allied forces-Army, Navy, Air forces of the British, Dutch, Chinese, U.S. and possibly Russian-under one supreme amphibious commander in each great geographical area. For instance: to make General Douglas MacArthur commander of all anti-Axis forces in the South Pacific, his command to stretch from Rangoon to Honolulu...
...country was the territory served by isolationist Chicago Tribune, where the Tribune's editorials and Charles Augustus Lindbergh's shrill "they can't touch us" had all but drowned out OCD's weak little toot. Last week the Midwest had just begun to yawn and stretch. In Wisconsin it was announced that plans for civilian defense were going to be given "prolonged study." St. Louis declared that it would get around this week to enrolling some 50,000 volunteers which it figured it might need...