Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byrd. Only 15 big 81-mm. mortars a month can be produced at present...
...Byrd. For the next few months, 37-mm. anti-tank guns will be produced at a rate of 15 a month...
...Byrd. The defense program calls for delivery of only four 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns a month during the rest...
Soliloquy. Said Senator Byrd of the President's reply: "Granting all the President's figures which are variations of what I said about tanks, anti-tank and antiaircraft guns, it wouldn't change the picture of the appalling state of the defense program...
...Have Failed." Said cherubic Senator Byrd: "America has the capacity in labor and raw materials to outproduce any other nation. ... In that job ... we have failed, and miserably failed. . . We have not sent to England the aid we should have sent her, and our own preparations have dangerously lagged . . . We have spent for national defense nearly $10,000,000,000. What have we to show? . . . The colossal sum of $53,000,000,000 has been authorized and appropriated. This is twice as much as the cost of our participation in the last World...