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They were delighted to. If they survive a month of elimination training at Floyd Bennett, they will become cadets and learn to fly for the U. S. Navy at its great Pensacola Training Station. In the mean time they will have received ten hours of dual flight instruction, will get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Wings of Gold | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

If the U. S. takes the power, it will have to take the responsibility. It will have to show a willingness, not hitherto apparent, to deal in world problems firmly and sensibly. And in doing so, it must also, as Britain has done, accept the odium of being top dog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: If Britain Should Lose | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

He paraphrased the answer of von Ribbentrop (whose exact words were not made public): Germany could not understand why the U. S. had sent its reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine to Germany. Germany had no American colonies and "has given no occasion for the assumption that it intends to acquire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ribbentrop on Monroe | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

To build up these stock piles, RFC formed two $5,000,000 corporations last week: Rubber Reserve Co. (half of whose capital will be put up by the rubber makers) and Metals Reserve Co. To the former it planned to lend $65,000,000 to buy 150,000 tons of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Bars Go Up | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Congress since 1934 has let the Navy: 1) build up from relative decrepitude to a strong fleet of 301 combat ships, inferior in tonnage only to Great Britain's; 2) get to work on 62 more, plan 63 others; 3) acquire 1,780 of 3,000 projected planes. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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