Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lauchlin Currie denounced Japan's "tawdry mask." He restated "our pledge to deliver to China's veteran armies and experienced generals a striking power that will turn a long and glorious war of resistance into offensive campaigns." He assured the Chinese that President Roosevelt and his advisers "have...
A. J. was sick. Cried he, in his first white heat of disappointment, "this has hung crepe on the biggest thing in Louisiana." It was small wonder: 10,000 workmen were pounding ahead on his vast yard; $10,000,000 had already been spent. By September, the first ship was...
The U.S. is getting ready for a Jules Verne venture to win the war: air freighting. To a nation pledged to deliver millions of tons of war materials to war fronts thousands of miles away, the use of fleets of cargo planes over six continents and seven oceans is no...
For instance, a fleet of 300 75-ton planes could deliver five whole streamlined divisions across the Atlantic in the same time required by 30 surface transports carrying 2,000 men each. And some 3,500 planes of types now in use (Boeing B-17 four-engine bombers, or Consolidated...
The Army had its own pigeon-sized air-cargo system. In 1941 it carted 4,000 tons of airplane parts to & from tactical fields and its depots. But in the U.S. long-range air freighting was an uncharted stratum, even after the Army established a ferry service to deliver combat...