Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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However, I do know one thing about him so newsworthy that I think it should be passed on to you. You will note from this stationery that I am a part time military person and am, I might add, busily engaged in trying to build up the reserve military forces of the U. S. in my own little sphere so that should the time come, God forbid, that reserve military forces are needed, they will be ready to move in with the regulars and function. I remember all too well the late Mr. Bryan's two million...
Last week, Adolf Hitler corrected George Marshall's estimates. Military arithmetic, which a month ago was too much for the U. S. to add up without getting taxpayers' cramp, suddenly became kindergarten stuff. Along with the arithmetic went the military thinking which produced such piffling ciphers as $279,000,000. Overnight, the pleasant doings in Louisiana became old-fashioned non sense. Against Europe's total war, the U. S. Army looked like a few nice boys with BB guns...
...That to $1,748,796,572 of pending Army-Navy appropriations, Congress immediately add $1,182,000,000 ($896,000,000 in direct appropriations, $286.000,000 for orders to be placed now, paid for later) ; 2) that the U. S. step up its annual aircraft production to 50,000 planes, its standing force of Army-Navy planes...
Shot-putter Howie Mendel also established a new Harvard mark in the Heptagonal meet. His heave of 49 feet 2 1/4 inches lengthened the mark set by George Downing last year by 3/4 of an inch. Mendel should certainly add to the meet record of 48 feet 9 7/8 inches also set by Downing last year and stands a fine chance of beating his newly established mark...
...eight Navy yards (which do half the Navy's building) and 22 private yards with 83 ocean ways. None of them is idle today. Fortnight ago Admiral Stark, asking a Senate Committee for more Navy money, pointed to strained shipbuilding capacity and proposed to add more. But the private shipbuilders, busy as they are, pointed to 37 partially dismantled ways which can be restored to use if their schedules need speeding...