Word: weakenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan's prime point was that Germany should pay first of all with the bone & sinew of German industry-machines, stocks, tools, practically everything except factory buildings. Collecting in this way, the victors would simultaneously recover some of their war losses and weaken Germany's potential for future...
Alcoholics Are Made. Though many other factors are often involved, Dr. Richardson blames much alcoholism on parents who weaken their children's egos by withholding needed attention, affection and approval-or by overdoing it. How parents fail...
...major theme is the exploitation of Japan's national hypochondria. Says one leaflet: "Water lines and electricity will be destroyed by bombs. Food will become scarce. Thus, you will weaken and become sick. . . . With every bombing the country becomes more unclean, and it is more difficult to control disease. Put an end to this needless suffering. Demand that the militarists who started this war bring...
...brought into office a group of conservatives influenced by such old friends of the Emperor as Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma. Is a split developing between the businessmen and nobles, on the one hand, and the Armyj chiefs, on the other? If so, the split is bound to weaken Japan's war effort. Washington does not want to heal the breach by an overt propaganda attack on the Emperor...
...biggest surprise in the study was the apparent plentifulness of Japanese strategic metal supplies. The Japanese are wasteful and often clumsy in workmanship (e.g., apparently ignorant of the principles of stresses in metals, they weaken airplane connecting rods by making deep stencils of serial numbers in them). But the Japs have not had to be careful. They have enough copper to make their cartridge cases of brass, have been lavish in the use of nickel, zinc, manganese, aluminum and other precious alloys...