Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of the world's smartest machinery. Many a machine is no good for making anything but autos; that was why conversion was not the simple, button-pushing job that some people thought it should be. The great body and fender presses, half-embedded in concrete, are useless now; the great halls that held them are being walled off, spiders will spin webs on them until the war is over. The massive, complex, special-purpose machinery which was once Detroit's pride has been ripped out, carted to parking lots; there the machines stand now, coated with grease...
John Q. Voter was mad because Congress did not suspend the 40-hour-week law. He was mad because Congress did not stop strikes, did not stop useless Government expenditures, did not ship aid to MacArthur...
...Tasmania and the Caucasus fall to Hitler, he will get the oil which he so badly needs, and he may be able to carry on the war indefinitely, according to de Haas. "The British blockade will be practically useless, he added...
...impossible to hold any possession, island or base, by a defense whose principal buttress is an existing sea supremacy. Unless the foundations of victory are laid by the formation of an adequate land army . . . mere sea power ... is useless except for rescue work. . . ." (Cf. Dunkirk, Crete...
Colonel B. W. Venable bluntly told the educators that "glamor" courses in military matters are often useless. What the Army needs is courage and resourcefulness-both, said he, plain products of a good education. He further shocked the delegation when he told them that the college-graduate soldier did not have as good self-discipline as the soldier of high-school and grade-school level...