Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...calibre machine gun for use against aircraft and a wicked-looking 37-rnm. (about 1½-inch) cannon. Since then the assembly line has turned them out with increasing regularity. A. C. F. drivers take the tanks for 40-m.p.h. trial runs, see that their Continental airplane-type engines function, bring them back to the shop for final adjustment down to close tolerances (1/10,000 of an inch) before marking them ready for delivery. To the officers of the new Armored Corps, anxious to start training their men in new equipment, new Panzer tactics, A. C. F.'s tank...
Last time, with their naval bases at Alexandria and on the island of Cyprus, they commanded the eastern Mediterranean, keeping open their short trade route to the Orient. This time that route is cut farther west, by Italy in midMediterranean, and the British Fleet protecting the Canal found another function: to threaten Italy in the Mediterranean, raid her supply lines and cut off completely the Italian forces in East Africa (which now includes what once was Ethiopia...
...along plans already in use in the German Army) and first war-tried in 1917. The Chief of Staff is top ranker of the Army in peacetime but likely to be topped in war (as he was in 1917-18) by the field commander of the armies. Function of the Chief of Staff: under the Secretary of War to plan, develop and execute the Army's program for national defense...
...cylinders, ignition system, transmission, chassis go to make up an automobile, each of these men represents a separate part and function of the U. S. military machine. As an ABC for civilians, the parts...
...famed German school of architecture and design which Nazis later turned into a domestic science school for girls. It had a bony infancy. Fad-hungry interior decorators pounced on its chromium steel chairs and glass-topped tables. But many a buyer found it short on fun, however long on function. Trouble was-and still is-that metal furniture was cold in surface and line, clammy or hot according to the weather...