Word: supping
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...this decade you have undertaken vast new obligations, which we sup port. But because you have not applied to these obligations the ordinary standards of business judgment, you have lost our money by the billions and we, the people, say: give us a businesslike administration that will act as the steward of our prosperity; that will ensure the social progress that is now threatened; and that will manage our affairs at least as intelligently as we manage our own enterprises...
...Steel. Japan's war lords know that their upstart industry and slave labor cannot hope to match Allied production. But the war lords are pinning their forlorn hopes on other factors to save them, for years to come: 1) Russian neutrality; 2) geography, which lengthens Allied sup ply lines as it shortens Japan's; 3) stock piles of vital raw materials, high enough to last up to two years; 4) Allied war weariness, and revulsion against casualties heavier than in Europe...
Died. Maurice Bunau-Varilla, 88, opportunist publisher of Paris' recently pro-Nazi Le Matin, brother of the late famed engineer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who helped start the Panama Canal; in Paris. In appreciation of Le Matin's sup port, the invading Nazis ordered large quantities of Synthol, an externally ap plied headache nostrum under Bunau-Varilla's control...
...bridge head; 3) to drive southwest across the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, severing it from the rest of Nazi-held France; 4) to swing north and take (from the rear) the great port of Cherbourg. In the first week, everything depended on the Allies' ability to land enough sup plies on the obstacle-strewn beaches to sustain their forces until Cherbourg could be taken. Thereafter, Cherbourg would be the port of entry. It was a foregone conclusion that the Nazis' demolitions would wreck the tide gates of Cherbourg's commercial basin; they might have some temporary success in blocking...
...There was the old story of too little and too late at Anzio, with the result that, although the landing was a surprise, which is always possible through naval support, the troops, instead of moving or being able to move to cut the Via Casilina, the sup ply line of the German forces at Cassino began consolidation of the beachhead, where they are besieged...