Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest educational system in all history equip the American people to detect [these] ancient fallacies? . . . Why have so many educators been so easily persuaded to chase butterflies that will take all education as we have known it in America into oblivion? . . . To conclude . . . I think there is a basis for hope. . .. I think it is in the idea of noblesse oblige...
...I.R.A. fighter before he became reconciled to the policy of compromise, ordered it disarmed, dissolved. But I.R.A. extremists were not to be stopped. Up in the hills of rock-walled County Donegal, in the purple bogs of County Mayo and windswept County Clare they began to drill and equip a new army, reported to be 15,000 strong. If the bombings continue, they are certain to disrupt the policy of friendly understanding which Premier de Valera has achieved with Britain. But "Dev" would like to see a united Ireland, and he knows Britain has her hands full elsewhere. Last week...
More welcome to Chief of Staff Malin Craig than a huge air fleet is the money for other Army material. He estimates that he now needs at least $140,000,000 to equip properly the Regular Army's 174,300 officers & men, and 200,000 National Guardsmen & Reserves who would comprise an Initial Protective Force of 400,000-the Army to bear the first brunt of war while drafted citizens are being trained. The Roosevelt estimates (including the "educational" $32,000,000) would just about fill out General Craig's minimum program...
...this week's election was over. No. 1 was national rearmament. While his aides discussed a separate "Emergency budget" for defense; an air fleet of 10,000 airplanes (instead of the 7,000 mentioned fortnight ago), provision in the War Department Appropriation bill (now being drafted) to equip for instant combat an "initial protective force" of 400,000 soldiers (Regular Army plus National Guard), the President himself took action. He ordered a new navy dirigible built (see p. 19). He announced he had ordered a survey of all Federal lands and plants capable of being used toward Rearmament. Mentioned...
Thus-for the short term-greater or less Chinese success in resisting Japan is directly dependent: 1) upon how much finished war material the Soviet Union is willing and able to ship over remaining inland routes, as the Japanese have already cut the best; 2) on Chinese ability to equip themselves with the products of new arsenals set up in the Wild West...