Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure if the circumstances were reversed and we or the Americans asked for similar access to the Russian arsenal, it would not be granted. ... I cannot myself feel the slightest anxiety as a Brit ish subject that these great powers are at the present moment in the hands of the United States. ... We should aid the United States to guard this weapon as a sacred trust for the maintenance of peace...
...most news readers Ulithi means no more than Ailinglapalap, another Pacific atoll. But to U.S. Navy men Ulithi for nearly a year has been a home, a grocery store and an arsenal. Until last week it was also a military secret...
Within a week, other secondary cities got the same treatment-Shizuoka, Toyohashi, Fukuoka, Kagamigahara. Small as they were (under 325,000 population), they contained valuable war plants, arsenals, little "shadow factories" dispersed in flimsy dwellings. In some cases one raid was considered enough to write off the productive capacity of a city. One such case was the great naval arsenal at Kure, last big plant of its type...
Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum, determined not to look like an arsenal of antiquities, last week went way back to ancient Greece for a sprucing-up act. Visitors who associate Greek art with dusty plaster and dreary drapes of frozen chitons will have their eyes opened: the Met's dolled-up Greek Art collection has a fresh-as-a-daisy look...
...delegates missed the import of the city's past, they would hardly miss the significance of San Francisco in 1945-metropolis, arsenal, base of vast Pacific air and sea communications. To men from weary countries the men & women on the quaint cable cars, on the city's automobile-lined streets would seem incredibly fresh, well-dressed, well-fed. The great shipyards around San Francisco Bay would launch another small fleet before they departed. And along the Embarcadero they would see Harry Bridges' longshoremen loading ships with tanks, guns, food and clothing by the endless trainload...