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Finally the President made good his threat, proclaimed: "Whereas . . . aircraft essential to its [the U.S.'s] armed forces and to the national defense is seriously impaired ... I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, pursuant to the powers vested in me . . . direct that the Secretary of War immediately take possession." This week, on the morning set for reopening, as tear-gas bombs began to lob through jampacked streets around the plants and violence began to spurt, soldiers with fixed bayonets marched into Inglewood...
...obsolescent Hood, need not be damned because of superficial similarities. With their range (reportedly 13,000 miles), more punch and staying power than some of the Navy's older battleships, the Alaskas should be very handy if the U.S. Navy has to back up President Roosevelt's threat to harry Nazi shipping out of the Atlantic, or do the same to Japan's trade routes in the Pacific. The catch: none of the Alaskas has even been laid down; they are future ships indeed...
...guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would not be able to press on through the gate until the Tobruch threat was eliminated...
...workers back to the assembly line. Once it has assumed control, the Army will find itself in much the same position with regard to the strikers as do the owners now. The determination of the Union, shown at its meeting yesterday, not to be browbeaten by President Roosevelt's threat of force provides an indication of how labor all over the country will react to the presence of two battalions of infantry in the offing. If the Army takes over in Inglewood tomorrow the strike will be farther from solution than ever...
...urging that the Harvard Student Union "be exposed for the true termites that they are!" demands careful critical examination of its entire logical development; for its motivating idea is convincing a progressively larger and larger portion of the population--and is in consequence becoming a graver and graver threat to the very basis of all democracy...