Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President in this hour of urgency had two ends in view. One was speed to meet a grim short-term deadline-the fair skies of spring in England, when Hitler may invade Britain. The other was to expand the whole U. S. economy into enormous productivity for the long-term struggle against a possibly victorious Axis -a project that was moving like a big river, so broad that the actual speed of the current was almost imperceptible...
...regular Friday morning press conference came & went without definitive answer from the President. Big Bill Knudsen of the National Defense Advisory Commission had set the country ringing with his blast against the weekend "blackout" in U. S. industry, his plea to machine toolmen-management and labor-to speed up because of "terrible urgency...
Thus briefly Franklin Roosevelt laid out his remedial changes for the U. S. defense setup. He left no doubt that, when his reorganization order was published, National Defense would finally have all the authority it has lacked to give it direction and speed, to wipe out confusion in priorities and procurement...
...standard-speed, range, comfort, power-the U. S. Navy's new destroyers (1,500-1,650 tons) are as much superior to the 50 "tin cans" given to Great Britain in the bases deal as a 1941 Cadillac limousine is to a 1908 Maxwell roadster. Yet the Navy was sorry to see its 50 old four-pipers go. They were pesky, hard-sledding, pitched and rolled in any kind of sea with the unpredictable ill humor of a sunfishing mustang. But they were ships. They were reasonably fast (around 35 knots) and they could still make...
Arrangements were announced in Washington whereby 60 freighters will be built to British order with all speed in new U. S. yards. Nineteen German freighters seized by the Dutch in Netherlands Indies ports were reported turned over to Britain. And at a press conference in London, Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross dropped a frank hint that contained dynamite...