Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need be. Java, citadel of the Indies defense, held the bulk of an Army of 100,000 (native and European), the bulk of the new Air Force, old but fixed coastal defenses, an arsenal. And Sumatra was just as tough, with one half sheltered by Malaya, the other half lying in the strategic domain of the mighty fortress of Singapore...
...mouth of a fainthearted army officer-there are many-it sounds natural enough; only when you hear it from men whose actions stamp them as dedicated to all-out effort does it strike you as odd and sad that this token word has taken root everywhere. . . . This arsenal of democracy, this strongest of all industrial nations, continues to view with shuddering abhorrence the world of conflict in which it finds itself. Confronted with the bloodlust of Hitler's Germany, it still wishes it could continue to dream about colored bathtubs. . . ." Stultified by this spirit, the U.S. is not merely...
...family the Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale Broun passed his physical exam, expected induction within a month. Robert P. Patterson Jr., son of the Under Secretary of War (see p. 28), turned up at Springfield Armory Arsenal working incognito as a machinist. J. P. Morgan gave Bundles for Britain the furnishings of the yacht Corsair IV, which is now in war service. Bundles will sell them for cash...
...well be millions of Russian workers to swell the Nazi labor battalions; new Slav divisions to swell the Nazi Armies. Where can Britain and the U.S. turn for man power to offset this menacing mass? If Britain is democracy's European bastion, the U.S. democracy's arsenal, China is its untapped source of vast potential fighting power. Chiang's war messages make it clear that he has long been waiting for the democracies to see this point. If they do not, they can be sure that Hitler will, and one of Germany's elastic frontiers...
...assembled for the rusty, work-worn trucks of China's highway system. Road-building equipment was en route. So were medical supplies. Steel for the construction of a new Yunnan-Burma railway was promised. Most important news of all to China's powder-grimed riflemen: ordnance and arsenal equipment was being given them...