Word: darker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have a long road to go and I have never concealed from the nation or from the House the darker side of our dangers and burdens. But it is in adversity that the British qualities shine brightest. It is under these extraordinary tests that the character of our slowly wrought institutions reveals its latent and invincible strength. Up to the present this war has been waged between a fully armed Germany and a quarter-or half-armed British Empire. We have not done so badly...
...them would plop into the lake, never to emerge. Looking down into the clear water, the curator saw "on the cold blue bottom, with their flippers outstretched . . . hundreds, possibly thousands of dead Johnny penguins. . . . Most of them lay face up, their breasts reflecting gleams of white from the darker water...
...other cloud was darker. Many of Detroit's key supply industries are already overworked. Can they continue to fill Defense and consumer needs simultaneously? One narrowing bottleneck is pig iron (TIME, Sept. 23) which Detroit needs for its iron foundries. Another is the foundries themselves, which are being rushed with Defense orders. Still another is the rundown old cotton & woolen textile industry, a large auto supplier which is getting huge orders from Army & Navy. (Already Washington is quietly discouraging Detroit from ordering its wool too far in advance.) Another, vital to makers of accessories, is the zinc industry...
...London wartime blackouts have aided Greenwich astronomers by cutting out the glow of city lights which interfered with telescope observation-but, presumably, the big fires set during mass raids have been a nuisance. Before the war there was serious talk of moving the observatory to another and darker site. Up to last week the observatory had not been hit and work was proceeding normally...
...meanwhile the cloud over U. S. sugar is growing darker. Cuba has depended on the European market to get rid of 33% of her crop; Britain's sugar islands have depended on Europe even more. In Asia, the huge Javanese crop is facing a smaller market in India (which can now turn exporter), is backing up close to the Philippines and Hawaii. Thus, if the U. S. assumes the job of taking care of distress commodities inside the Monroe Doctrine area (TIME, July 1), sugar will stand near the head of the line...