Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...said "Glmph!" to the President), and with 90 other polio patients. In a gay little speech he said deliberately: "I hope to be down here in March, without any question, if the world survives." (In April 1939, he had said deliberately: "I'll be back in the fall -if we don't have...
...decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would be superior to Adolf Hitler's by only 31,200 tons. But if this new German strength should be backed up by Japan's fleet (eleven carriers), U. S. carriers would...
...this made the week the most important since the fall of France. It might prove to be a turning point in the war. But there were many ifs attached to that possibility...
...very best view Britons could take of last week's news was that Italy might fall out of the war, that internal dissatisfaction might force a separate peace. What, militarily, would the collapse of Italy mean for the British cause? It would not keep German bombers from the Isles. It would not necessarily mean that Britain could remove its entire Mediterranean Fleet for duty elsewhere (uncertain is the disposition of the rest of France's Navy, of Spain's not negligible fleet). But collapse of Italy would certainly relieve pressure, freeing troops, planes and some ships...
...always keeps only a jump behind the international situation. The preoccupation of songwriters with U. S. patriotism put three flag-waving songs on Variety's best-selling list.* The assault on England has boosted A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square to No. 3 on the list. But the fall of France has inspired the best tune: The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Not yet a bestseller, this song was well on its way last week. Kate Smith had had exclusive radio rights to it for six weeks. There were half a dozen...