Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slashing 39 seconds off the previous record, Edward H. Harding '45, sculled the four-mile course up to the Arsenal Street Bridge and back yesterday morning in 27 minutes 14 seconds, breaking the record formerly held by David C. Noyes...
President Roosevelt, even before the United States entered the war, had procured eight bases from Great Britain and had proclaimed our country the "Arsenal of Democracy," whereas President Wilson continually told the nation to be calm and collected. Thus in the last war the nation was lulled into cool, "neutral" thinking only to be whipped into a highly emotional state by our sudden declaration of war against Germany...
There were some sore spots and sound places in the ranks of organized U.S. labor last week. For the fourth time since the U.S. became the so-called world's arsenal of democracy, Franklin Roosevelt was forced to order the Army or Navy to take over a strike-bound factory (see p. 71). In Detroit, production and labor relations were snarled by bad morale (see p. 17). But in thousands of other plants, while the picture was not heartening, it was at least normal...
...snarled results were as much Army's fault as OPM's. Old-fashioned military purchasing methods were geared to buy a few tin hats from a few munitions makers, not to build a total-war arsenal from a whole economy converted to war. And both OPM and Army were under a great handicap: nobody knew how many weapons the U.S. would need or where it would get the raw materials to build them, or even what wars the U.S. was going to fight-if any. The U.S. had no war management, either military or civilian...
...lack of steel the famed Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit may grind to a stop within a few weeks. Elsewhere in the Detroit area the Chevrolet gear and axle plant, the Fisher Body plant No. 1 are already shut down...