Many of these same transports were used many times to bring crucial supplies and reinforcements to Allied forces on Guadalcanal over succeeding months.

The Empire also lacked crucial supplies of coal and other needed commodities.

The recovery workers were woefully short on all kinds of crucial supplies, including hard hats, and she had been helping to fill the gap, she said.

Tuzla has suffered severe shortages of food, petroleum products and other crucial supplies.

Starved for foreign currency to import crucial supplies, the government now requires all businesses to trade 25 percent of their foreign income at the official exchange rate.

He held up the small backpack that we'd filled with a few crucial supplies from Anne's house.

No one was killed, but many crucial supplies were lost, including all of the expedition's barometers.

All his crucial supplies were kept in a public locker at the spaceport terminal.

Over generations, the Afghans have become masters at hiding crucial supplies of food, fuel and weapons in hundreds, perhaps thousands of caves around the country.

Bagramyan's senior staff diverted air support and other crucial supplies to aid the partisans, allowing most of them to escape the German encirclement.