Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Fact was that the U. S., in trying to aid Britain, was still producing more bottle necks per week than anything else. But Mr. Roosevelt announced that he would take off that aid "the silly, foolish dollar sign." He had prepared the public for whatever concrete legislation may be proposed. He was still working day & night with the only immediately effective U. S. weapons: dollars and diplomacy. The nation would soon become a gigantic arsenal. Preparedness was to be all-out preparedness. The Budget soon to go to Congress might be an Anglo-American budget. Whether or not it would...
...forgotten "phony war." Meanwhile, life in the big London air-raid shelters, where over 1,000,000 people regularly spend the night, had become so standardized that many shelter Christmas parties were elaborate communal affairs with mass harmony singing, skits and dancing. Christmas trees sold regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting a neon sign "HAPPY CHRISTMAS." In most shelters a costumed Santa made his rounds with small gifts, but festoons and tinsel had to be given up in subway-platform shelters because the air blast from the trains blew...
...Working men and women in Scottish industry, don't you allow any minority to create a condition to force the State to take action it doesn't want to take [i.e., suppress the British Communist Party]. . . . I am not going to be a party to punishing 99 per cent to stop one per cent, but if there are some subversive elements trying to interfere with the war effort, I will deal with that one per cent...
...Turkey was 57?per pound in Britain, goose...
...week's reports (none confirmed) placed 30,000 Germans already in Libya or bound there; 50,000 waiting in Italy; a full division aboard ships in Trieste. All that Italy admitted was that big Junkers transports, flown and serviced by Nazis, were ferrying about 3,000 Italian troops per day across the Adriatic...