Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relentlessly last week and this the planes came - Stukas, Jaguars, "flying pencils," "Jitterschmitts" - the whole array, not once a day but almost incessantly. They came from different angles, feinting at other targets, then sheering in on the city; at different heights and different speeds; in waves, but on staggered schedules to confuse the defense...
That any such array of power confronted Mr. Roosevelt in 1936 was a myth exploded last week by Editor & Publisher. In a survey of press sentiment for & against a third term. Editor & Publisher inserted a question to set the record straight: Did you support Roosevelt against Landon in 1936? Of the papers which replied, 60% were Landon followers, 35% backed Roosevelt, 5% were neutral...
...where they were to be used was still undetermined. New York City's officials consulted labor leaders and employers in defense industries on how many men were needed, got no clear-cut answer. In Washington, Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, in charge of labor training, surrounded himself with an array of coordinators, directors, advisers, stock takers. Already abandoned was President Roosevelt's plan to conscript 1,500,000 trainees for industrial defense. There was a sharp dispute over whether a shortage of mechanics existed: A. F. of L. claimed that an incomplete survey in 33 States by the Social...
Despite Britain's array of power in the Rock, British Military Expert Captain Liddell Hart believes it untenable as a naval base and the German High Command believes it crackable as a fortress...
...most extreme form the Nazi menace would mean naval and military action in the western hemisphere. A completely victorious Germany would control the Italian navy, possess perhaps important parts of the French and British navies, enlist the natural cooperation of the Jananese, and have at her disposal an array of European shipbuilding facilities incomparably superior to ours. Equally important, the Germans would have become enormously self-confident. Military action then is a real possibility, and it would doubtless be materially-aided in parts of Latin America by the generous cooperation of fifth columnists...