Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House committee listened to the recital of this overwhelming array without batting an eye. Not so the Navy's flyers. Air-minded sailors of every rank groaned, "Ernie King and the battleship boys have won again." There were too many King-sized ships (i.e., battlewagons) in the deal, said one respected Admiral, who added that if he had his way he would sink them all. Only in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, airmen argued, had the battlewagon served as more than a fat flakship-and they were pre-Pearl Harbor ships at that...
...inexpensive one? Puffy-cheeked War Minister André Diethelm thought the army should be a whopper, chiefly as a matter of prestige. Lean, hardheaded Finance Minister René Pleven insisted that a small, tight, mechanized force was all that was necessary: in tomorrow's atomic war a massive array of manpower would be silly. Last week the Cabinet met in Paris, listened for five hours to the williwaw of conflicting opinions. The man who does France's bookkeeping finally...
Premiered at the Shubert Theater Monday night, "Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston" offered at most a pleasing array of music, humor, and color. Leonard Levinson's flimsy book was rescued to some extent by the lively and semi-original three-quarter time music of Robert Stolz, who conducted a well-trained and inspired orchestra. It was, however, the superb coloratura soprano of Virginia MacWatters which turned the otherwise insipid show into what might well...
...greater part of the land fighting in the Pacific last week was being done by the Australians. Mostly they inched forward in bitter, forgotten little battles against a scattered but formidable array of Japs (best conservative guesstimate: 136,000-see map) bypassed in the westward sweep of the main battle. But the Aussies were punching ahead on new battlegrounds...
...Japan's big business is not in any way interested in anything short of a total victory." Tokyo's motor transport was drafted for defense. Writers were enlisted for home-front propaganda. Cried Radio Tokyo: "The sooner the enemy comes, the better for us, for our battle array is complete...