Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take the plastics industry, for example: the source of airplane frames, tank windows, gas masks, gun stocks, an war goods in general. At present it is limited by lack of methanol and acetone, which, like explosives, are made from starch. But in spite of our "vast and untouched" resources it is the United States and not the Axis which feels the pinch. We have been depending mainly on sugar as the source of the mow scarce starch, gathering only one per cent of the possible yield from corn. An attempt not so long ago to industrialize potato starch was ruined...
...maddening as the khamsin, but neither Rommel nor the khamsin made restless British troops as furious as a letter seized from a German officer of the 104th Infantry Regiment. The letter gave credit to the English as "coldblooded infighters, arrogant and proud" prisoners, but concluded: "So far his tank tactics have shown no conception of concentration of force. . . . The tactics and methods of his infantry when advancing to attack can only be described as unimaginative. Incomprehensible crowding during an advance often gives the impression of insufficient training...
...years, Daladier said, the French High Command had distrusted tank warfare, had scorned the theory of General Charles de Gaulle that tanks should be used as the spearhead of attack, rather than as isolated units accompanying infantry advances. "But our leaders did not believe in them," Daladier told the court. "They were placed behind our troops...
...Contrary to what many have said, I don't believe he has allowed himself to be coerced to the extent of supplying "interpretations" of his symphonies along political lines, and has thus left the question open as to whether he is depicting a picnic on the Volga, a Soviet tank factory, or the Triumphant Will of the Proletariat. He has shown by the immense amount of defense work he has undertaken in beseiged Moscow a very genuine love for Russia, and this love, I think, is the only objective idea he tries to get into his music...
...sends its tankers elsewhere, the East Coast, which uses about 1,600,000 bbl. of oil every day, will have to depend on tank cars (now bringing in 257,000 bbl. daily), pipelines, barges-and rationing. Even the 250-odd tankers planned for 1942-43 delivery will probably join the Allies' long, long supply lines to the other sides of the world...