Word: weapons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...more bottle necks per week than anything else. But Mr. Roosevelt announced that he would take off that aid "the silly, foolish dollar sign." He had prepared the public for whatever concrete legislation may be proposed. He was still working day & night with the only immediately effective U. S. weapons: dollars and diplomacy. The nation would soon become a gigantic arsenal. Preparedness was to be all-out preparedness. The Budget soon to go to Congress might be an Anglo-American budget. Whether or not it would ever be used to save England, the U. S. would forge a worthy weapon...
Guileless Senator Logan died, but his fleabite, the Logan-Walter bill, remained to threaten the New Deal with gangrene. Anti-New Dealers saw in the bill a weapon with which to assassinate such agencies as the Securities Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Wage-&-Hour Division. With them were plenty of other men who were honestly outraged by the New Deal's bureaucratic stupidities and abuses...
...madhouse sound & fury, a U. S. Navy carrier is an outstanding example of the smooth coordination of man and complicated machine. It is also a powerful weapon for long-range reconnaissance, for delivery of swift and crushing raids from the air, like the British attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied...
...easy way to find out if our poll is accurate. That is to conduct a poll of your own. We believe that such a poll would confirm our findings. If, however, we were proved wrong, we would welcome the correction. Since our poll was not intended as a "weapon," it could not "boomerang." Our aim was to find the truth. If we have failed in that it remains for others to do a better job. We have facts to back up our conclusion; when you make charges, the burden of proof...
...reveal what these super-scientific methods might be. If the report as a whole had shown any startling devotion to truth, this hedging might perhaps be overlooked; but when it is coupled with other examples of distortion, it assumes greater importance. If this poll is any sort of a weapon, it is a boomerang. And if all those opposed to American intervention in the present war are "radicals, cynics, and pacifists," then the editors of Defense have laid an egg in their own hen-house...