Word: regularities
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Department) of how to speed up or bolster Defense. General Marshall is a patient man, but he has a job to do; such letters could better go to the President's new Defense Commission. One thing he is dead set against is turning the Regular Army into a school for hordes of raw recruits. One reason: the Army must keep its few trained units intact for service in the troubled, troublesome Americas. Said clearheaded George Marshall (to the Veterans of Foreign Wars): ". . . We must not become involved by impatience or ignorance in an ill-considered, overnight expansion, which would...
...British regular Army units to defend the homeland consisted of 1,250,000 home troops, plus 350,000 reconditioned survivors of the B. E. F., plus 50,000 newly arrived and sunburned Australians, plus a third contingent of Canadian fliers and replacements, plus 500,000 draftees in training. Some help will come from 500,000 local defense volunteers armed with shotguns and sporting rifles. To the special anti-Blitzkrieg force of old reserves, 500,000 strong, their commander General Sir Edmund Ironside said...
...Meanwhile the U. S. regular army was having trouble recruiting to its authorized strength...
...crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections (via Pan Am's Pacific Alaska Airways) to Fairbanks and Nome, three hours farther...
...while transplanting rosebushes or trimming his favorite fig trees. He has lived that way ever since he lost his EPIC campaign for Governor six years ago. In the mornings he glances at the papers "to see what has happened to the poor old Allies," then settles down to his regular 1,000 words a day. From his windows in the rambling, one-story Sinclair frame house he looks across the Arroyo Seco to mountains on three sides. When a visitor comes in, Sinclair's tanned, evangelical face lights up as he says: "First I want to show you something...