Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy and in its conduct of anti-submarine warfare. . . . Unfortunately the only types in which [the shipbuilding program] is not well ahead of schedule are those most needed in combatting submarines. ... It does not pay to be unduly optimistic. However . . . in the past few weeks the submarine has largely withdrawn from our eastern seaboard and is operating farther...
...surgical dressings), explained why: the wonder baby had literally been snatched from the cradle and hastened off to war. Eighteen months ago it made a modest debut in Chux, a disposable diaper; before it could appear in sheets, window draperies, table cloths, wall paper, wire insulation, Masslinn was abruptly withdrawn from the market and production (now running about 800,000 yards per month) converted totally to Army & Navy needs...
...odds on war between Japan and Russia before the end of 1942 shortened last week. From Chungking came word that the Japanese were speedily building defenses in Inner Mongolia, had already withdrawn some provincial-government departments behind the Great Wall. Allied Intelligence unearthed Jap plans to conscript native troops, to reinforce the army on the Manchukuoan-Siberian frontier...
...speeded up 1,000%, announced four scientists of the Seagram distilleries of Louisville, Ky. Molasses is now fermented in batches in 50 hours, but the Seagram chemists have devised a continuous five-hour cycle in which fresh molasses enters a single fermentation vessel while fermented material is constantly withdrawn at the other end. But pilot-plant operations must be studied before this laboratory technique is adopted by distilleries...
...example; Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung and War Minister Ho Ying-chin apologized publicly for the extravagant motoring of subordinates. The Minister of Communications set up a "bus" line of brightly painted two-wheel carts drawn by stubborn little Szechwan ponies. Most commercial trucks and private cars were withdrawn from the road...