Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President wandered over graphic foothills for four years, suddenly leaped to a peak of 42,500,000 listeners (57.0) for the Stab-in-the-Back broadcast of June 10, 1940. As national self-absorption went down, Presidential audiences went up- 43,900,000 (59.0) for the Arsenal of Democracy Speech; 53,800,000 (69.8) for the Declaration of National Emergency; 62,100,000 (79.0) for the War Message...
...last week war prophets pointed to the Middle East as the "logical" point for the long-awaited Axis spring offensive. President Roosevelt announced that U.S. service troops were already in the Middle East -power-station and arsenal for the United Nations -and that Lend-Lease aid would be extended on north to Iran and Iraq...
...protect his rear and divide his enemies. Before he turns his full attention to Russia, he might think it wise to try to eliminate the growing threat from the British Isles. He might think it not only wise but necessary to intercept the flow of goods from the growing arsenal...
...Brazil last week the Japs were beginning to take the play away from the Nazis. While busy cops hopped frantically up & down the coast, Japs & more Japs kept turning up, equipped with everything from illegal radio transmitters to detailed maps of Brazil's shoreline. One raid unearthed an arsenal of 400,000 rifle cartridges, a lot of automatic riot rifles. Another raid at São Paulo deprived the Japs of 42 high-powered speedboats. The most sinister Jap enterprise discovered was the outfitting of a small port near Jaquiá, about 90 miles southwest of Santos, with gasoline...
Most U.S. installations are recent. Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N.J., piped music through its sewing-machine building last fall. Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego began broadcasting lunchtime entertainment to its 39,000 workers in December. Last week the Brooklyn Navy Yard put into use a newly installed sound system. This week Todd Shipyards Corp. began noon-hour dance-band concerts in its Brooklyn and Hoboken yards...