Word: widener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Need & Answer. The need for this type of international cooperation was amply demonstrated in North Africa, where the job of feeding the Axis-scourged countries has already begun (see cut). There the U.S. and Britain are learning to coordinate their relief activities; as the United Nations offensives widen, the problem will become worldwide...
...beside such masterpieces of mystery and adventure as The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. But, like those films, it is notable for shrewd casting, unidealized camera work, and imaginative sound. These factors help this military training film to hold and excite a civilian audience, and thus to widen its effectiveness...
...forces carried out everywhere they landed. Most of their armored, snub-nosed barges from the convoys came, not to the port itself, but to the sandy beaches a few miles from the city. There they disgorged Rangers (U.S. commandomen) for initial landings, infantry, artillery and tanks to consolidate and widen the landings. Their purposes were to pincer the city itself, and to seize Blida and Maison-Blanche, Algiers' two main airdromes...
...article in the Atlantic Monthly, under the heading of "The Use of Our Colleges in Time of War," puts forth his call for federal subsidies for college students in order to "widen the base for officer material...
That was not all there was in Eritrea to make Italian eyes widen. When it was decided last year to set up bases there for Lend-Lease material, U.S. laborers, recruited in New York, were rushed to the fever-ridden little country on the Red Sea. To escape the heat of the lowlands, where the temperature sometimes reaches 120°, they were housed 4,000 feet above sea level on the inland plateau and transported every day to the sweltering seacoast...