Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman Robert Reynolds of the Senate Military Affairs Committee started hearings on the size of the Army (see p. 16), said he would not make up his mind until he had "all the evidence." His committee also considered lengthening the work week (but did not say how). Cracked South Dakota's Senator Chan Gurney: "If you have 18,000,000 men in industry working 40 hours a week to produce a given amount of goods, you could get the same amount from 12,000,000 working 60 hours a week, thereby freeing 6,000,000 for the armed forces...
...days before Pearl Harbor, South Dakota's throaty, balding Republican Representative Karl E. Mundt, president of the National Forensic League, made many an oration on behalf of U.S. isolation. Once he urged that Franklin Roosevelt undertake to mediate the war in Europe; once he demanded that Franklin Roosevelt resign...
...Continent began as a pip-squeak Minnesota-Dakota mail carrier, got nowhere until 1936 when rich Thomas Fortune Ryan III bought a big block of the common stock. Ambitious Tom Ryan started romping all over the place, wound up with 6,700 flight miles from Minneapolis (Northwest's home plate) to Huron, S.C., to Tulsa and to St. Louis. Then he applied for routes to New Orleans, other points...
...Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye: part of his house was flooded twice. Reported Mrs. Nye: "The Senator was pretty angry...
Recovery. Only a little less remarkable has been the growth of the surface U.S. Navy in the year since Pearl Harbor. Besides the North Carolina and the Washington, commissioned in 1941, probably four new battleships, the South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alabama, have joined the fleet by this time. The "biggest-ever" (45,000 tons), 30-knot Iowa was launched, in August, her sister ship New Jersey this week. These big, new, cruiser-fast battleships differ from the old Pearl Harbor ships as a Flying Fortress differs from a B18. Other signs of naval recovery...