Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Institute of Frozen Ground, which has prepared an atlas of frozen-ground areas throughout the world, had built up a wartime ice cover on the Moscow reservoir so thick that ordinary bombs could not damage it. A top dressing of evergreen branches kept the ice from melting until midsummer...
Iran's oil was part of the greatest known oil reservoir on earth. Only in the south had part of its riches yet been tapped, by the British, but the results were impressive enough. From the oil area around Masjidi-Suleiman and the great refinery of Abadan at the head of the Persian Gulf, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. drew 350,000 barrels a day, with indicated reserves of six to seven billion barrels. Few oilmen doubted that the untapped fields north of Iran, especially round Lake Urmia and Samnan, held oil as well...
...armed services can dip into a reservoir of trained men. Last week the Army and Navy underwent their biggest command shifts without audible clashing of gears. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King finally resigned as Chief of Naval Operations-the job he had taken in December 1941, with the crack: "When they get into trouble they always send for the sons of bitches." Now his filial job was done. His successor: mild, earnest Chester Nimitz...
...General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, worriedly and unwillingly presiding over the liquidation of U.S. military power, the only solution was a universal military training act, which would supply a reservoir of trained men. In General Marshall's plan, such a reservoir could be tapped immediately, and thrown in with the National Guard and the Regular Army to create a force of 4,000,000 men. Only then, said Marshall, would the world continue to respect the U.S. and believe that it really meant what it said-that it would help to keep peace in the world...
...invitation to produce this book was simple and direct. Would I like to read 'X' millions of words of reporting from TIME correspondents at the battlefronts and see whether in this vast reservoir of wartime journalism there was some 'best' material for a book...