Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...artillery, even the infantry were on the defensive. What had their wind up was the rapid growth, the ambitious airs of the air corps and the armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor one. The fustiest officer in the U. S. Army could hardly ignore the lesson, nor fail to see that U. S. airmen and tankers were certain to demand a large and possibly dominant place in the new Army...
...London Daily Express, owned by Aircraft Minister Baron Beaverbrook. Next day the British censor passed a dispatch in which Chicago Daily News's Helen Kirkpatrick noted: "It is significant that districts where unofficial strikes (that is to say, strikes not organized by the trade unions) have cropped up happen to be districts where the Communist Party is most active. Communist agents have been found circulating in factories and among dock workers trying to stir up trouble...
Through 1940's Presidential campaign, one big question rode along with the question of who would win. It was this: What would happen to the political amateurs after the election was over? Last week the question was still unanswered, but signs were piling up that the Republican amateurs, sadder now but wiser too, would keep going...
...creaking old (62) Lionel Barrymore heard the Los Angeles WPA Orchestra perform his symphony, Tableau Russe, was so amazed he decided to finish another symphony he started a few years back. Grunted Composer Barrymore, who practices many arts: "It is not only amusing but pleasing to have all this happen...
What went on in Charlestown was likely to happen in many another U. S. community. Unlike most other materials of war, explosives should be produced in sparsely-settled areas, can seldom make use of the surplus labor and housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules...