Word: regularities
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...warships, 1,813 planes, were 143 new combat vessels (including four 45,000-ton battleships, six 35,000-tonners), 4,180 planes, 35 old destroyers and 36 old submarines, which last week were marked for recommissioning and assignment to the feeble Atlantic Squadron. Booked for the Regular Army was a standing force of 400,000 (up from 280,000, perhaps rising later to 750,000); 5,566 more planes, doubling the Air Corps; munitions for an initial wartime force...
Slightly smaller in dimensions than regular tabloids, it gave about 35% of its space to pictures. Its 32 pages were stapled together and its front page had a brown border, with logotype and box at the left side. Within the border was a three-column headline and a picture. On the whole, PM looked and read more like a cross between a newspaper and a magazine than like a newspaper hot off the wires...
...President Roosevelt in Galway, Eire, landed last week in Manhattan. Next day from Genoa the Manhattan brought 1,914 more, prayerfully glad to be safe in the U. S. Italy's declaration of war this week blacked out the last Continental port open to U. S. ships. Only regular passenger route left between the U. S. and Europe was by Clipper to Lisbon. Next week Pan American will up their two-plane-a-week service to three...
...prevailing U. S. mood affected Congress in other ways. Compulsory military training, partial peacetime conscription to hurry expansion of the Regular Army from 280,000 to 400.000 men-these drastic departures from U. S. tradition were gravely discussed, raising hardly a ripple of the horror which would have surged in waves six months ago. About the means of Defense (appropriations, taxes, man power) there was no hesitancy, no serious question in Congress last week...
Washington acted. At the State Department's instance, the Navy dispatched a second cruiser (the new, 10,000-ton Wichita) to Latin-American waters in the wake of the Quincy. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall gravely warned a House committee that the Regular Army and the National Guard should be prepared to sustain friendly regimes in Latin America (Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador), possibly "within a month or two." Discussed was a plan to set up a great Latin-American trade corporation, to be financed by the U. S. and to act as a buffer between a German-Italian Europe...