Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubber Reserve Corp.; toluene (for TNT) to Army Ordnance; aviation gasoline to the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator. Something at last began to happen about six weeks ago. Its foundation was the sober recognition on everyone's part that 1) the rubber situation was so dire as to threaten the war effort itself; 2) the raw materials situation as a whole (particularly in steel) was so dire that the rubber program had to be frozen, and on a strictly string-saving basis at that...
...south "is the logical place for Hitler to attack because he needs the oil in the Caucasus, and because from there he will be able to threaten the British flank." His plans for an early attack were probably thwarted, Karpovich said, by climate conditions which do not differ so radically in the south from the north as most people think...
...news for the U.S. bomber Ferrying Command, which is flying planes and supplies across Africa to the British in the Middle East and India (see map). A Vichy attack on Free French bases in French Equatorial Africa might threaten that supply line in a dozen places...
...islands, Madagascar is 241,094 square miles in area. It lies only 240 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, athwart the United Nations' sea lane around the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf, to India and Australia. If Japan had Madagascar, the Axis would threaten the whole Indian Ocean. Madagascar is 3,800 miles from Java and 7,200 from Tokyo-not as far as Australia is from...
...Bohemian Club was Humanist Lewis Mumford. Said he: "Here is a challenge to a fresh creative effort in education . . . the production of complete human beings, harmoniously disciplined to create within themselves and within their society the order that will banish the barbarous mechanisms and the mechanized barbarisms that now threaten...