Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hemisphere against the common enemy. It is with a purely selfish aim in mind that this country must flood Britain with the aid which the defenders need so badly. Guns and planes and shells and ships must flow in a ceaseless stream from this hemisphere to the other. An arsenal we must be, not because we love the land of roast beef and brown ale, but because we fear for the land of hamburgers and Coca Cola. Up to this point we see eye to eye with Mr. Conant as to what is to be done. But here we part...
...Sunday speakers, at the Business School, will be Professor Stanley F. Toele, of the Business School, on "Prioriities Now;" Mr. Couil E. Frasor, Research Associate of the Business School, on "How to Deal with the Government;" and Mr. Flanders, on "This Arsenal of Democracy." General discussion periods will be held at each session...
...danger of invasion, even if the British Fleet should be destroyed or captured. The bill, said Mr. Castle, gave the President too much power over the U. S. and Britain too. "through his control of the supplies flowing out from what he pleases to call 'the arsenal of democracy.' " Other objectors joined the parade through the committee room, others used whatever sounding boards were handy...
...tank factory site was firm and dry when workmen began to clear it on Sept. 11. By early December it was a marshy morass. Mud-stained steelworkers slopped around in boots, sometimes worked up to their thighs in mud to get the arsenal's skeleton started. When the snows came they skinned along icy girders in biting wind, grinned back at the constructing quartermaster, bald, sunny Major H. R. Kadlec, when he asked them if the going was getting too tough. The few complaints they made were settled by their business agents and Kadlec (Detroiters called him Cadillac...
Last week the northeast quarter of the arsenal was glassed in, the floor was laid and the first of the equipment was rolling into the building on railroad flatcars. The steelwork was about 90% complete and glaziers were on the heels of the steelmen in the rest of the building. Major Kadlec could proudly announce that the arsenal, complete with powerhouse, office, hospital building and test track, would be ready on schedule, April...