Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away the toughest airplane pilots on the North American continent are the rakehell Canuck airmen who since the '20s have lugged machinery and prospectors, food and engineers into the vast country north of Canada's twin transcontinental railroads. But Canadian airmen have had no counterpart in Canadian airplanes. During World War I Canada built 2,500 warplanes, but last year she built only 282 machines for a gross of $4,001,622, most of them U. S. models built under license (Lockheeds, Grummans, Piper Cubs). Next year it may be different...
...lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years of schooling in the hard facts of politics, business, labor; as a poet, a big Swede trying to shape American lingo to fit his anger against bunk artists, his vague tenderness for common people, his sense of the power...
...cannot save Finland. Specifically, we cannot save Finland by wiping up the floor with Russia's American apologists, the Communists. Already, however, the witch-hunt is in full swing, with that eminent Finnish patriot, Martin Dies, leading the pack. American radicalism is neither a coherent philosophy nor a unified political movement. There is not even a united front. Communists and Socialists, Lovestoneites and Trotskyites are engaged in endless guerilla warfare. Because one section of the radical movement supports Stalin, the whole liberal and radical melange is threatened by a tidal wave of reaction...
France has crushed her Communists, curbed her radicals. In war she has foregone the luxury of free speech. But America is not at war. Outraged Americans must not be stampeded by the vision of an unleashed Russian juggernaut into silencing all American critics of the status quo. American radicals do not dictate the policy of the Kremlin; they should not be hung in effigy...
...American Memories...