Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's 20-odd divisions were tied up in Italy, the Nazis would have to divert supplies to them which might otherwise go to the invasion coast. Likewise, Kesselring must be prepared for amphibious landings in the north. (Berlin radio fran tically forecast that Allied troops were poised in Corsica and Sardinia for such a purpose.) In the Anzio sector, stiff Prussian Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen planned to meet another Fifth Army attack on the Germans' flank...
...industry was let in last week on a WPB secret. Vice Chairman Charles Wilson told the Automobile Labor Advisory Committee that when Germany surrenders, WPB will divert 35% of U.S. war facilities to civilian manufacture. At the present rate, this will mean a cutback of $25,000,000,000 in war production, will reduce war output to about $46,000,000,000 annually...
...underlined one of the most pressing of Army production problems last week. When another Army big shot recently cabled "I've got to have 1,300 crawler tractors," the Army had to rob warehouses of badly needed agricultural units, had to beggar other essential construction programs, and even divert equipment from Lend-Lease commitments.* For-in some areas, at least-World War II has turned into a tractor...
...Royal Navy is moving in any force into the western Pacific, the Japs will have to divert naval strength to protect their sea lanes to Rangoon and north Burma...
Three weeks ago WPB cautiously began to cut back production. Before long, six eastern plants will be partly or completely shut down. U.S. production will be cut some 14%-a round 300,000,000 lb., almost equal to the top prewar year's poundage. Pleas to divert excess aluminum to civilian uses have brought a stock WPB answer: no manpower...