Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Storer College at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., has a magnificent view of the Potomac gap, which Thomas Jefferson thought was ". . . worth a voyage across the Atlantic." On Storer's campus stands the Arsenal that John Brown held for 60 hours. Moved from the site in downtown Harpers Ferry where Major Robert E. Lee captured Old Osawatomie, it was presented to the college...
When the big guns in the Crimson track arsenal swing into action this weekend at the IC4A championships in Philadelphia, it will be the last chance for five of them to crack existing Harvard records...
...real boss, striding along the great assembly lines, sitting, birdlike and domineering, among the empire's reverent executives. Once again he cried out against the stupidity of war. He was an America Firster. But when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, he turned his Rouge plant into an arsenal. He put his company on a seven-day week...
...Franklin Roosevelt's effort to buy a way out of World War II with Lend-Lease were only zigzags in the broad U.S. policy. F.D.R. understood that when, before Pearl Harbor, he told Congress: "Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal...
World War II made most Americans conscious that the arsenal of democracy has a strategic roof (Canada) and ground floor (Latin America). Postwar developments have made them acutely conscious that the roof is a convenient avenue of entry for burglars and that ideological con men have already moved in among the respectable residents on the first floor...