Word: sustainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion of Hitler's Europe. The looming question for Britons and their king is not whether they can avert disaster, but how they will fare in victory-and with whom they are going to share it. The question of Empire is not which Dominions shall receive and sustain the British Fleet (it never was a question in Britain), but just how closely the Dominions shall group around Britain in the postwar world...
...interceptor-fighter plane with a rocket-booster mechanism which enables it to sustain a climb at an angle of 45 to 60 degrees, zoom to an altitude of 22,000 ft. in two minutes...
...American shame, Dec. 7, was celebrated in Japan. In the U.S., Congress had asked the President to designate Dec. 7 as "Armed Services Honor Day." The President vetoed the Joint Resolution. "Future events will ordain the proper date for such a commemoration," promised the President. The nation seemed to sustain the veto...
...Relief would be of two kinds: immediate necessities to sustain life,and seeds and equipment to restore economic independence...
Last week the full realization of his hopes was not exactly near, but it seemed nearer than it ever had before. Much of the Pacific, and perhaps Malaya, must be cleared before the Navy, even in over whelming force, can open and sustain Chennault's cherished entry through the China coast. But the Navy has recognized his need and his potentialities. The Army must give him more planes, lick terrific problems of air supply before he can do his utmost within unopened China. But the Army, like the Navy, has at last recognized Chennault and China...