Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course nobody wants war; no mother wants to lose her son in any war. . . . But if that's what's necessary to gain the ends we desire-peace, freedom, security-then let's have the intestinal fortitude to do what we must while...
...lies the plain and simple fact that funds appropriated lag behind our needs for military materials, and that production lags behind the appropriations. It is urgent that we see more clearly . . . move more rapidly and decisively. . . ." > "It would seem clear that the way to defeat an enemy is to gain a superiority in arms and equipment over him. The fact is that the Army and Navy have not yet said what this country needs if it is to attain that superiority. . . . The Army has consistently said that it could not plan for what equipment it might need because it does...
...airlines fit into the defense jigsaw far tighter than most U.S. citizens realize. In the first three months of this year 595,580 revenue passengers traveled by air, up 35% to a record high. This gain is largely because of, and largely useful to, defense. With 156 planes landing and taking off at Washington's airport every 24 hours it has become one of the busiest plane hives...
...attempt to assist men in the University who are interested in flying to gain information about the Air Forces of the United States, the Harvard Flying Cadet Committee will hold a mass meeting open to the public tonight at 7:30 o' clock in the auditorium of the Hasty Pudding Club on Holyoke Street...
...would bring, President Inönü knew they would be unpleasant, feared they would include even the demand for passage of troops through Turkey. To such a demand Turkish officials were satisfied he would answer with a flat No. Said one: "We fought too hard and long to gain our liberty to give it up lightly by the so-called innocent passage of troops. . . . You must realize that the same men who actually fought Turkey's independence wars are now running the country. They know what the country suffered then. So we are making all preparations...