Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...cannot swim is of no use to a drowning person if he jumps in after him, thereby drowning them both...
...Walter Lippmann, "in a sense in which it was not possible to France." If the British Fleet does fall to Hitler, Mr. Lippmann said, the U. S. will be isolated completely. "The question for us is not whether we shall send an army to Europe but whether we shall use our naval, air, economic and political power to prevent Hitler from obtaining command of the Atlantic Ocean...
...years had argued in vain for greatly expanded mechanization of the Army, appealed for continued resistance to the Nazis. "This capitulation," he said over the radio, "was signed before all means of resistance had been exhausted. This capitulation delivers into the hands of the enemy, who will use them against our Allies, our arms, our warships and our gold. . . . There is no longer on the soil of France an independent Government capable of upholding the interests of France and the French overseas." Acting on this premise, General de Gaulle set up a Provisional French Na tional Committee in London, dedicated...
Allowing for full use of Czech, Polish, Austrian and Luxembourg steel works, the Nazis could produce perhaps 35 million tons of steel a year, almost a quarter of the world's capacity (perhaps 30% of the world's capacity including France), against Britain's 10%. When the war began Britain was still taking 30% of her machine-tool imports from Germany. British buying in the U. S. (producer of half the world's steel) could overcome this discrepancy if there were time. But halfhearted Allied approximations of totalitarian economic control, and futile attempts to preserve empire...
...base tax valuations on earning power of the property. Thus unimproved land having no annual income would pay no taxes. Sometimes called the "British System," it would up the value of vacant land, cause further urban decentralization because it puts no penalty on speculators' withholding city land from use...