Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Housatonic, shipyards clang. Spindles are singing again in textile mills, turning out Army uniforms. Pretty, white-spired New England villages, asleep in their history, have stirred themselves to produce millions of small war parts. Connecticut, aswarm with producers of firearms, propellers and engines, rightfully calls herself the No. 1 Arsenal in the Arsenal of Democracy. Small, bellicose Vermont was the first state to declare war on the Axis-nine weeks before Pearl Harbor, Vermont began paying soldier bonuses because the U.S. was "already in a shooting war." In the green hills where Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys trod...
...Revolution of 1830 momentarily interrupted his dramatic career. Dumas was about to start south with his latest mistress when news that street fighting had begun in Paris filled him with joy. He volunteered to go to Soissons, seize some badly needed powder. The commander of the arsenal, a former colonial officer, at first refused to surrender to the kinky-haired playwright. But the officer's wife cried: "Oh, my darling, yield! This is another revolt of the Negroes!" Dumas brought back the powder to Paris, was embraced by Lafayette and the Duke of Orleans, who said: "M. Dumas...
...Mountaintop. One simple fact caused this confusion : while the great war itself has not been won, the American production war has. The great bottlenecks of the past are now so many shards of glass. The arsenal of democracy has be come one long, clanging assembly line, throwing off the weapons of death in unbelievable quantities. This achievement, much doubted, often hobbled by incompetence and inefficiency, is now a great fact of history. Some of the figures...
Policy-Makers. Basically, Russia's prime objectives are: 1) complete defeat of Hitlerite Germany and 2) security from future attack. To achieve these goals, the Russians are prepared to use every weapon in the arsenal of power politics: military force, alliances or armed isolation, collective responsibility or exclusive spheres of influence. On the choice of the weapons depends the harvest to be reaped by the Red sickle...
Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...