Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent military significance. Logistics experts calculate that soldiers with all their impedimenta can be trucked over any stretch of the system, using only one strip, at the rate of 72,000 an hour. Thus German officers, particularly those of the younger, mechanized generation, are convinced that the Autobahnen will supplant railroads as the prime mode of wartime transport...
...Committee for Pneumonia Control, told the Kings County Medical Society that he had used M. & B. 693 with striking success in several cases of highly fatal Type III pneumonia. Moreover, said Dr. Cecil enthusiastically, the new English tablets appear to be effective against many types of pneumonia, may soon supplant expensive serums which have to be made specifically for each type of the disease...
...opened them again and said: "I cannot believe that anyone here believes we can use airships for military purposes in Germany. . . . Now is the time to sell it [helium]. In fifty years there will be no market for helium because there will be no airships. Airplanes will then supplant them...
...seeing animals act. Two years ago some 2,250,000 people flocked to the St. Louis Zoological Park, famed for its animal stunts, to watch two chimpanzees do battle in a boxing ring. This winter St. Louis trainers worked arduously on a new act which they hope will supplant the now-retired fighting apes...
...pugnacious C. I. 0. American Newspaper Guild last week ended the longest strike in its history. Seven months ago the Scripps League Seattle Star hired A. F. of L. teamsters to supplant Guild office workers in its circulation department. That started the strike. After a four-day shutdown, the Star's, presses started up again, managed to get out a paper every day of the strike. Last week's armistice gave neither side the full fruits of victory. Reinstated were 45 editorial and advertising office Guildsmen. Nineteen circulation men, recently ordered reinstated by the National Labor Relations Board...