Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who man our defenses and those behind them who build our defenses must have the stamina and courage which come from an unshakable belief in the manner of life which they are defending. The mighty action which we are calling for cannot be based on a disregard of all things worth fighting...
...problem before us, as I am given to see things, involves more than 'aid to Britain' or even war in support of British policy in Europe. It is, at bottom, whether we are to build and defend a civilization on our continental domain or are to resume, in effect our former status as a dominion in the British Empire and rely upon British policy and arms for our very existence. In any case, the future will be difficult for us, as, indeed, the past has been, but trying to police the world would certainly be more perplexing and dangerous than...
Although the U. S. has had an export licensing system on certain machine ex ports since last July, the State Department has taken the position that exports of machines not directly needed for de fense should be allowed. But by last week almost every kind of machine-building capacity and labor looked useful for defense. Typically, C. I. O.'s Walter Reuther proposed using excess automaking equipment to make planes, arguing that adapting it to this purpose would take a third of the time needed to build new machines...
...wife's name was Clorinda MacIntyre. The community was Dixie Mission, which she helped build out of the harsh, savagely colored wilderness 300 miles south of the Great Salt Lake Valley...
...part of the war as an investment. Each of these could have refused the unwelcome orders. None did. With bottomless resources, they could have expanded mightily into munitions, cleaned up for a few years. They did not do that either. Each mobilized its men and skills, agreed to build and operate munitions plants for a very nominal sum above cost, the Government to own the plants. Result of this combination of patriotism and restraint: at industry's own request, a large part of the U. S. arms business was in effect nationalized...