Word: maneuverability
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Few hours before dawn one morning last week, Alexandria, La. (pop. 27,000) was wakened by the bangs and bops of rifle fire. In the moonlit streets below bedroom windows flame spurted from Springfields and Garands; from hedges, fences, shadows, machine guns chattered. Streets filled with clanking trucks and sputtering...
Senator Truman: . . . This has all the earmarks of a maneuver by OPM to turn over full control of the aluminum industry to Alcoa.
At week's end, despite denials from Helsinki and Berlin, Uncle Joe Stalin appeared to be trying to maneuver Finland out of the war. He withdrew 15 divisions from the Karelian Isthmus. Having recaptured Viipuri, which the Russians took from them in 1940, the Finns, by the Russians'...
* She also has many a wrinkle new to U.S. battleships: more elaborate compartmentation, greater protection for her fighting crew on the topside and below, greater handiness in maneuver, greater range, more horsepower from new-type engines.
The President is a profound student of naval strategy, a genius at political maneuver. But he does not delegate authority. He is not at home in the realm of industry and production. Above all, he does not call forth the national will to action-although, because he is the President...