Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This ambitious British answer to Germany's war on merchant shipping will require some 200,000 mines, costing at least $1,000 per mine ($200,000,000).* It will dwarf the mine barrage laid in 1918 across the North Sea from the Orkneys to Norway by the U. S. and Great Britain together. That barrage (71,126 mines) took from early March to mid-October to lay. Great Britain's mine-laying fleet is certainly capable of faster work now than then, but manufacturing 200,000 mines will tax her arsenals. Mine mechanism is tricky, requires expert labor...
...names were not to stick very long to this newest subject of the Tsar; he was to answer to Soso, Koba, David, Nijeradze, Chijikov and Ivanovich until at length he acquired the pseudonym of Stalin, Man of Steel...
German defeatism was a blanket answer. Mustard-gas shells aboard the Spee, discovery of which would have created a stench in neutral noses, was the height of British suspicion. Fear that Uruguay or Argentina might become an ally, and turn the interned Spee against Germany, constituted a political answer (see p. 18). None of these answers was approved by non-Nazi naval men, whose code demands that a ship of war shall continue fighting just as long as she can do some damage to the enemy...
Monsignor Sheen's remarks were more than funereal eloquence. They were probably intended partly as an answer to those Catholics who still viewed Heywood Broun as an unreconstructed Red, who ought never to have been accepted by the Church. And they were undoubtedly voiced, by one of the nation's most influential Catholics, as the sincerest tribute he could make to a man who had sincerely been his friend...
Minneapolis-Moline in meeting this growing competition has produced a "Comfortractor." Its driver sits on upholstery in a cab heated, fitted with radio, dustproof, cooled by an electric fan-the answer to a clod-buster's prayer for release from boredom, sweat and cornfield dirt...