Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...deepened immeasurably since his departure a fortnight before. There was disappointment in that mood: the number of airplanes being shipped to England was not 700 a month, as predicted last spring, nor 600, nor 500, nor 400, nor 300. The total was 177 to England, 102 to Canada. The shock to the national pride, if to nothing else, was acute. Men might rage or despair or work furiously, but they couldn't seem to get planes to Britain. Even the 279 planes were 75 more than had been shipped in September. And the President had evidently altered...
...these last five months there have been tremendous changes. When last I spoke we had just experienced the terrific shock of the overthrow of France. Hitler seemed irresistible. First Poland had been overwhelmed, then Norway, then Holland, then Belgium. Finally came the destruction in less than a month's fighting of what had been rated as the finest army for its size in Europe, and the disarmament and division of France...
...letter, signed by all of the officers, counsellors, and committee chairmen of the group, advocates drastic action, "if this country is to equip itself adequately, and at the same time bring prompt and effective aid to those who are bearing the shock of aggression...
...Mexico City there was another sort of welcome. Henry Wallace, Good Neighbor, got his first shock. As his party arrived at the U. S. Embassy there were more clumps of Mexicans chatting and laughing as they waited, but these were young intellectuals and fanatical women. Seeing them, the official Mexican chaperons had the good sense to hurry their distinguished guest into the Embassy by a side door before he was noticed. Members of the Embassy staff and newspapermen waited on the front steps. LIFE photographer Carl Mydans wandered into the crowd and snapped some pictures. The groups began mumbling...
Bringing his own team and money with him, Hughes set to work on a story about Oklahoma Bandit Billy the Kid, to be called The Outlaw, to star veteran Actor Walter Huston. No sooner was the shock of this major change absorbed than Fox delivered another, announced that a second independent unit had been signed to furnish two more pictures a year. Backbone of this addition were Stars Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Ronald Colman, Directors Lewis Milestone (Of Mice and Men), Anatole Litvak (All This and Heaven...