Word: arsenal
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...small point: Jean Monnet did not originate the phrase "arsenal of democracy." Jean Monnet was alleged by Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, in his Working with Roosevelt, to have used this expression in late 1940 in a conversation with Justice Felix Frankfurter, and Frankfurter then urged Monnet not to use the phrase again in public so that Roosevelt could put the phrase to greater advantage in a speech...
However, in the New York Times of May 12, 1940 (about six months earlier), Jack Gould's article, "The Broadway Stage Has Its First War Play," quoted the late Robert Emmet Sherwood as saying that "this country is already, in effect, an arsenal for the democratic Allies." Sherwood, in his biography Roosevelt and Hopkins, treats this phrase gingerly...
...endorsed Monnet's French passport personally, sent him to Washington to help coordinate Anglo-American war-supply planning. It was Monnet who conceived the idea of Lend-Lease. And it was Monnet who coined President Roosevelt's famous fire side-chat slogan: "We must be the great arsenal of democracy...
...small, short-range H-bomb exploded by some other means than the usual "dirty" fission detonator. Its proponents believe that it will kill people by neutrons while its feeble blast and heat will do little damage to property. But before it can be added to the U.S. arsenal, the neutron bomb will require a long and intensive series of tests...
What bombs have the Russians tested? The Russians are believed to have a well-tested arsenal of H-bombs, but there is reason to believe that their bombs may be heavier than U.S. bombs of the same explosive yield. Strong evidence for this speculation is the powerful booster rocket that the Russians are now using so effectively for their space spectaculars. The big rockets were developed at great cost because they were needed to carry very heavy loads. The U.S.. which had lighter H-bombs in prospect, was slow to concentrate on giant rockets. Little is known about other...