Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...opening day last week, 123,000 paid to get in. Messrs, Dill and Monahan hoped the total figure for the summer would be 4,333,000 at least. Opening day paid admissions last year were 128,697; opening day three weeks ago at the 1940 New York World's Fair: 191,196. Other differences between 1940's two folksy fairs: San Francisco's is more compact, its attractions are easier to get around to, and it is less pretentious, prettier. It also has less debt...
...bulk of the French mechanized forces (maximum: three divisions), and all the British and Belgian, were in the fatal pocket. Worse still, the Allied Air Forces, as daily losses added up, were whittled lower & lower. Besides attrition, further weakening of the R. A. F.-to which Premier Reynaud paid glowing tribute-by the withdrawal of planes for the defense of Great Britain (see p. 27) was all too possible. Any way it was looked at, the task before Weygand was grim. All week he must have labored desperately, but the atmosphere at his headquarters was as calm, brisk, full...
...week's end, M. Reynaud paid Mr. Churchill a visit in London and presently a new Chief of the British Imperial Staff was announced, replacing General Sir Edmund Ironside, who was put in charge of home defense (see p. 27). In a switch strategically parallel to the Weygand-for-Gamelin move, Mr. Churchill called on General Sir John Greer Dill, who was brought home from his command of the B. E. F. First Corps in France in April to be Sir Edmund's Vice Chief and standin. Sir John, 58 and Irish, is accounted the British Army...
...that the war would make the most drastic demands on Property, came no complaint. From the stoic middle classes, whose small holdings were likewise doomed, came none either. Labor's spokesmen were downright enthusiastic. For labor had nothing to give but its toil, for which it would be paid. Intellectual labor pointed out that socialization of industry was one of its historic aims, and the Act came close to bringing this about...
...James Phinney Baxter, the distinguished American historian, at his induction as President of Williams College, remarked pointedly; "While Congress fumbled with the economic aspects of neutrality . . . too little attention has been paid to the risks of emotional involvement in war. We have heard much about British propaganda in the United States, but no adequate study has been made of the volunteer unpaid efforts of thousands of Americans to conduct 'pro-ally' propaganda themselves. If the next war brings democracies to grips with fascist states, the risks of emotional involvement will be still greater than they were twenty years...