Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...debit side, the Navy was undermanned by 15%. Jo Richardson needed men faster than the training stations can turn them out. Although officers say that new Navy men learn in three months what took oldtimers three years, the Fleet needs more training-for its gun crews, its engineering forces, even for the hard-eyed, diligent young officers that Navy expansion promoted to the command of battleship and cruiser gun turrets long before their time. With an expansion of 70% ahead of it for the two-ocean Navy, it will need intensive training for a long time to come...
...would enable them to close the China Incident. The little yellow men were out to see whether the U. S. would scare. A firm U. S.-British stand on aid to China via the Burma Road, plus naval cooperation in the Far East, might scare them instead. If neither side would scare, there was a better than even chance...
...Mussolini's most practical route into the Balkans lies across the Strait of Otranto, on one side of which he has a base at Brindisi and at the other the fortified island of Saseno. In April 1939 he took Albania, which gave him a jumping-off place on the far side. Thence an Italian Army, unless it meets opposition from the forces of some real power, could make its way through Greece, or via Monastir in Yugoslavia to Salonika. From that point it could either ascend the Vardar River Valley towards Nish, or if that route is blocked...
...pretty well covered on their raw material needs into the first quarter of 1941. But if pressed too hard by a booming auto industry these suppliers might suddenly decide that the twin-motored Defense and consumer boom is heading them into inventory trouble-trouble, for once, on the short side. In that case, they might all jump into the commodities markets together, attempt to stock up for capacity operations through the end of 1941. Such a forward-buying movement would create the very shortages they fear, might lead to government priority rulings, moratoriums on tariffs, even price fixing. Detroit...
...dining room of a West Side bungalow in Chicago one day last week, nine chattering girls sat down to breakfast with a fleshy, fatherly, balding man whose eyes twinkled with self-satisfaction. The cottage was their office, the man their boss. For them President Otto E. Eisenschiml of Scientific Oil Compounding Co. (processors and distributors of vegetable oils) had just bought a tank car of linseed oil-theirs to resell when they like. He gets back his purchase price and stands the losses, if any. They get the profits...