Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today the Maritime Commission has another, war-born job. It has to build another bridge of ships to carry arms and food from the arsenal of democracy to the battle fronts. The scope of that task no man can foresee. Its length and breadth depend upon how much battering the British can still take, how much shipping the Germans can sink, how fast U. S. shipyards can turn out bottoms to re place them. All the Commission is concerned with is to turn out ships, ships and more ships, and turn them out fast. The U. S. Navy...
...passed, especially since newspapers had given most of their space to arguments of its opponents. To Vichy it seemed that the war had become a race between Germany's armies and U. S. factories. A Hungarian radio commentator thought that if the U. S. was now the arsenal of democracy, Russia must become the arsenal of totalitaria. In Moscow the Navy paper, Red Fleet, was more inclined to agree with Vichy. "The war," said Red Fleet, "is taking the form of a contest between the world's strongest capitalistic industrial machines-a contest for speed, quantity and quality...
...program is designed to keep Britain's war production space with the flow of arms and materials from the "arsenal of democracy" provided for in the U. S. Lend-Lease bill and to make Britain secure against Hitler's treatened "big attack" this spring...
...order for his gun from The Netherlands Indies) had conceded that the new Garand was better than the earlier model. Redesigned barrels and sights had increased its accuracy and ruggedness. Still a tough rifle to produce, the Garand was coming out of the Army's Springfield Arsenal at a 560-per-day clip. All that doubting Thomases could ask further last week was proof that the new Garand can stand up under combat firing. What, if anything, the Marine Corps testing board had to say on this important subject was a closely held secret. The Corps...
...desire to send its sailors and pilots to the Malay peninsula. What our policy must be is material aid and as much of it as possible. We must send planes and ships so that the British can maintain their precious line of supply. We must serve as an arsenal for the forces of democracy in the Far East as well as in Europe, but we must draw the line...