Word: offseting
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Germany, at this time, could scarcely make offers which would offset the Allied trumps, a fact best illustrated by the gradual swing of Turkish trade and Turkish policy toward the Allied side...
...this constant hide-&-seek the Russians with their larger numbers have an advantage which the Germans can offset only with superior air and armored forces. Lacking this superiority, the Germans recently indicated that they would attempt only a limited offensive, perhaps intended mainly to reduce the Red Army's tank strength, and thus improve the Axis' chances in a prolonged campaign...
...Machinists' Union announced its withdrawal from A.F. of L. Thus the prospective A.F. of L. gain of Lewis' 600,000 mine workers was offset by the loss of 565,000 machinists. The machinists' grievance, 29 years old, was jurisdictional...
There are now three editions of TIME AIR EXPRESS, with another soon due to appear. Most of these copies are still printed in this country on the world's fastest offset presses, then sped to Latin America by plane. But last year we began printing an edition for Mexico and Central America in Mexico City; last month we began printing in Bogotá for the north coast of South America-and very soon we hope to launch a third Latin American edition in Buenos Aires...
...Burmese Nationalist Revolutionary Party. They also fostered an underground Burma Independence Army and acquired the support of Dr. Ba Maw, a former Premier whom the British once imprisoned. Thirty-two nationalists were smuggled to Japan, there trained as pro-Japanese agitators. Inept British administrators did nothing effective to offset these preparations. "Meanwhile," wrote Thien Pe, "British imperialism was fighting on three fronts in Burma. It justly hated the pro-Jap elements. It openly disdained the freedom-loving neutrals, and it foolishly mistrusted the Communists." According to Thien Pe. Burmese Communists consistently opposed collaboration with Tokyo and could have helped...