Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last increases were voted, the U. S. people impatiently asked: How soon could all the new ships be off paper and in the water? The question was an old one. Romans asked it in 260 B.C., when Carthage cracked the whip in the Mediterranean. Rome's winning answer was its first fleet-100 galleys, knocked together on the beaches with hammer and saw in 60 days. But tomorrow's Navy is no two-month building job. Rear Admirals Samuel M. Robinson and Ben Moreell, the Navy's chiefs of new-ship construction, could give no better answer...
...post offices will distribute to noncitizens some 5,000,000 sample questionnaires in six key languages-Italian, German, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Yiddish. Two weeks later the four-month registration period will commence at 7,500 first and second class post offices. There aliens will be fingerprinted, answer the Department's 15 probing queries. Most pertinent item reads: "Within the past 5 years I (have, have not) been affiliated with or active in (a member of, official of, a worker for) organizations devoted in whole or in part to influencing or furthering the political activities, public relations, or public policy...
...answer to all these questions still remained in,.the hands of Neville Chamberlain. Since the failure of Munich he has considered the war a personal conflict between himself and the German war lord who blighted his efforts for peace. Short of a political Putsch, which would probably cause dangerous disharmony at this time, Britain could only wait for him to change his mind...
...they ask themselves anxiously, 'is the battle now between Hitler's New European Order and the Old British Empire?' Or is it, as they desire but hardly dare to hope, between the lords of the Third Reich and the protagonists of European revolution? On the answer to that question hangs the issue of the war and the fate of these islands...
...glasses, iced and ready for the Martinis for which the bar is famous. The ice in the glasses turned to water as delegates talked in nervous little groups. Their talk was subdued by one vast, all-pervasive IF. For every question about U. S. foreign trade had the same answer: "It depends on God and Hitler...