Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Navy will pass easily to you. We in Britain shall certainly fight to the end to defend our country . . . [but] quite apart from the difficulties that would arise, if you were neutral, of handing over a fleet designed to protect the British Commonwealth to a power which could not use it for that belligerent purpose, there would be little left over for you. ... I am not concerned today to attempt to tell you what you should do in this grave matter. That is your business. But I am concerned that if and when the crisis arises you should...
...question of whether our Army . . . should provide an expeditionary force for use in Europe has been settled for us. There is now no possibility that a landing could be effected for such a force on the continent of Europe. The Army which we raise will therefore be clearly and unmistakably for the defense of the interests of the United States in this hemisphere. On the question of such defense we are not divided...
...harvest, organized transportation and even supplied vehicles. Young Nazi soldiers were so ultra polite that Parisians saw in their conduct an implied criticism of their own customary rudeness. French authorities ordered the destruction of abandoned pets to prevent hydrophobia. Food shortage became acute and decrees restricting the use of flour for pastry, and forbidding the serving of butter in restaurants were issued. Money was scarce as banks remained closed and there was talk of municipal scrip being issued. With over 1,200,000 persons jobless in the Paris area alone, and soldiers and refugees returning by the thousand, the economic...
...cell converts the light waves into the same sort of electric impulses transmitted by an ordinary pickup. Philco claims that the sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal use. At a Manhattan demonstration, the pickup was dropped sharply upon a record, scraped roughly across its surface, made no scratch. Tone quality: about the same as in other mass-production machines...
...utility holding company. Wrote North American President Edward L. Shea to Defensemen Dunn and Olds: "The North American Co. and its operating companies expect to meet with their own resources all of the obligations arising out of any national defense problems. . . . This will require as never before the use of all resources of capital and man power. . . . We will use them fully." Utilitarian Shea laid on the line a $29,000,000 addition to a $61,000,000 construction program announced in January. The new items: 60,000 kilowatts for Cleveland, 50,000 for Washington...