Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...think you are mistaken in saying that "we are doing all we can by shipping planes" under the Neutrality Act; but "what they could use, of course, is a million men". As you then point out, we have no million men anywhere near ready; but we do have a good air force and a capacity for airplane production which could be greatly increased with governmental aid. We have great economic power which the Allies can draw on at present only subject to restrictions and hindrances. And lastly we have the potential power of making gentlemen like Mussolini hesitate...
...light and medium tanks (until last week the Army wanted only 136 more for its wartime force. The Germans use 300-400 tanks in a single division). ∧ 744 anti-tank guns (total wanted...
Heavy German motorized divisions and artillery meanwhile rolled into position on the Rhine facing Switzerland, but big guns of the French Maginot Line opened up with a terrific shelling of communication lines which Nazis would use to attack the Swiss. On Lake Constance, in full view of Swiss watchers on the farther shore, German troops practiced pontoon and rubber-boat warfare daily...
...days, her metronomes were ticking off destiny with the rapidity of a machine gun,--and followed with the specific suggestion that America modify its two-party system--she quite plainly struck responsive chords in important Washington breasts. Also, unconsciously, she provided a valuable measuring stick for non-interventionists to use in watching internal political developments...
...corresponding increase in the use of the reading and periodical rooms has been noted by librarians, who feel that the increased activity of Widener is partly due to the decline in the number of undergraduates using tutoring notes and reviews...