Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week that boy is two full weeks closer to the news from home-for we have just extended the radius of our Pacific Edition 4,000 miles beyond Honolulu by printing part of it in miniature size. This "Pacific Pony" weighs less than an ounce, travels by first-class mail-and the Army and the Navy are so interested in its morale-building value that they are distributing it to our task forces and all our advanced bases in the fastest possible...
Wealthy Administration-haters in Palm Beach spent an impressive amount of time & money reminding Florida voters that Senator Pepper is a typical, nationally known personification of New Dealism. New Dealer Pepper retorted by snuggling even closer to the President, charging his enemies with "hoping that by driving a dagger through my heart, it might reach a little ways into President Roosevelt." The chief Pepper rival, Jacksonville's Judge J. Ollie Edmunds, said boldly: "I am willing to stand up and be counted as a Southern Democrat." When he and others had stood up and been counted, New Dealer Pepper...
MacArthur's sweep west along the New Guinea coast, spearheaded and backed by the greatest concentration of naval power he had ever had, had given the U.S. new airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...
...French North Africa and in liberated Italy, Communist leaders rapidly dispelled the idea that they are still genuine sea-green revolutionaries. There, and elsewhere, what was once the Communist Left moved into ever closer league with the Right...
Britain and the World. In the last twelvemonth, Great Britain's foreign policy has taken these lines: 1) closer economic and political arrangements among the Dominions and Colonies of the Commonwealth and Empire; 2) close, friendly relationships in western Europe (with particular reference to Holland, Belgium, Norway, France); 3) intimate relationship with the U.S.; 4) friendship and cooperation with the U.S.S.R. London has accepted the view that the U.S. will make no postwar commitments to Britain or to any other European nation if they mean that the U.S. would automatically have to go to war to back...