Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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These losses will impose further delay on the expansion of our military strength...
...agreed that the danger of a world-wide war crisis would rise toward a maximum between 1939 and 1940 and he thought that by that time there should be someone younger, quicker and better equipped to meet the urgencies of possible warfare without delay in the White House. But he spoke of that rather as his own personal problem than America's."-(H. G. Wells-after lunching with President Roosevelt two years ago-in Collier...
...Baruch board extended its control over most of U. S. industry.* To businessmen, Baruch became the most powerful man in the U. S. Chief means of control was a priorities system, by which it could expedite or delay all shipments of war goods. (Only 25 industries, with total capital of $733,000,000, were classed as non-war.) Meanwhile the price-fixing committee, answerable directly to Wilson, set price limits at the source, on all basic materials. Before the Armistice it was extending its control over retail prices...
...Allies were short-sighted in not stopping Nazi militarism at the very first," Den Hartog remarked. "Now, because of their delay they are in a very bad position. For our own best interests, we should have backed the Allies strongly from the start." Believing that the Allies stand little chance now, he thinks that hope for the U. S. lies in "taking a strong stand in the Pacific and South America, to prevent seizures or penetration by Germany or Japan...
...vigorously cultivated friendship and common interests with The Netherlands. He joined Queen Wilhelmina twice last autumn in trying to secure peace by mediation. Said he: "Side by side with Holland, Belgium stands." She joined him, meanwhile, with a Dutch preparedness program which, while not calculated to do more than delay Germany until Allied reinforcements arrived, was a wide departure from her unarmed neutrality in the last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch defense system stood...