Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it looked as if Lord Halifax had won his point, and was at last identified by the U.S. as an individual rather than as a symbol of Britain's upper class. He flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco, talked to 700 men building marine engines for sub chasers, to 1,500 shipyard workers, was cheered by both groups. In San Francisco police had to clear a path for him to the speaker's table. He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests...
...lick-'em-join-'em, the Nazi Propaganda Ministry announced that V stood for Nazi victory-Viktoria-thereby impairing the purity of the German vocabulary by importing a foreign word, for the native German word for victory is Sieg. Germans were urged to use the symbol. In rendering this decision Dr. Goebbels made a mistake: since the V-sign was no longer verboten, the Germans could not suppress...
Colonel Britton's campaign was ingenious. It was more. It was the first antidote prescribed for the apathy of Europe. It was the first organized attempt to unite the spirit and forces of resistance. Symbols are strangely powerful in politics, and a symbol had been found for a future revolution against Fascism. If kept alive, V might come to stand, in Germany and all conquered countries, for a great underground movement against Naziism, for democracy's vast Column...
...This is the day of America. Fate itself wished to make a symbol of it, even in the calendar...
Whatever the merits of Alex Taub's quest, the Sabre, already flying in the formidable Hawker Typhoon fighter, was a fair symbol of the horsepower race. Well knowing that there is no substitute for "soup," British designers had gone all out after horsepower. The Sabre turns up nearly twice the horsepower of the old British pursuit engine, the 1,200 horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin (which Packard is still tooling up to make for Britain and the U.S., under a $187,500,000 order). But the U.S. is hot after horsepower too: it already...