Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Committee's next step. Last year during his mountain stay the U. S. waited, alarmed but unbelieving, for Adolf Hitler to plunge into Poland and launch the War. Last week it waited for a blow nearer home-for the full force of the Nazi onslaught to fall on the British Isles. No longer was it necessary last week for William Allen White or the Committee to argue that the U. S. had a vital interest in the way the war turned out. There had never been any doubt that the overwhelming mass of U. S. citizens hoped...
...raise $150,000 to carry on its activities through the fall, and gave an accounting of its finances to date: $131,543.56. Touchy since Senator Rush Holt linked it with Wall Street, the Committee reported it had received 4,666 gifts, 3,000 of them under $10, only two for more than $1,000. (When the Committee was first organized. Chairman White endorsed two checks for $500 each, one from J. P. Morgan, one from Labor Leader David Dubinsky...
...defense. The bargain was no trade, as suggested by Senator Pittman, no question of strategy, as raised by Major Eliot, no legal labyrinth. Said William Allen White: "If the British Empire, with all the weight of its democratic economic power and its military strength and naval force, should fall, the United States would be alone in a warlike world. . . . If war is not checked and thwarted in Great Britain, war will come inevitably to the United States. Because our first line of defense lies around the coast of Britain, in this crisis, we should turn to Great Britain...
...within 1,000 ft. of the peak. Miss Plank, climbing alone, was several hundred feet below them, when Anne Cedarquist suddenly slipped, plunged past Boyer and over a cliff. He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall. Boyer inched along a narrow ledge, looked over, saw that Miss Cedarquist was badly hurt but for the moment safe-half dangling, half propped on another ledge, above a long snow field and a deep crevasse. He could not pull her up without more help than Faye Plank could give...
...these totals were deceptively simple; U. S. arithmetic looked better than the total facts. Nobody knew how much or how fast secretive Japan was adding to its fleet-or when and whether the British Navy would fall to enemies of the U. S. As of last week, the U. S.'s "Big Navy" was just big enough to keep its defensive watch in the Pacific and a small squadron in the uncertain Atlantic. Its 15 battleships made up the most powerful battle line of any navy, but the average dreadnought age is 23 years. Three were so far outdated...