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Word: extents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enlarge the armed forces to any extent necessary to prevent whatever he considers to be infringements of U. S. Neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Half Out | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...18th Century, many from laws passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. Last week Attorney General Frank Murphy and his Department of Justice attorneys were under the strictest White House orders not to talk publicly about the extent of these powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Half Out | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...repudiation. " So were the Philadelphia Record the Detroit News ("It's the same old war! We got crossed up on it once. Once is enough."), and most of the Western papers. The Washington Star thought the U. S. "should support the French and the British to the extent envisioned in President Roosevelt's original proposal for neutrality legislation." The New York Herald Tribune practically lined up with the British and French, and the Times went the whole way: "At last there is a democratic front. . . . Inevitably we are more deeply engaged in the conflict." The columnists reverted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Story | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...merely stressing the point that coal has been discovered both by the Byrd expeditions and by other expeditions ... in the Antarctic continent. . . . Coal seams up to seven feet in thickness have been discovered . . . and estimates by such men as Sir Edgeworth David and Dr. Griffith Taylor indicate that in extent the coal reserves are possibly second only to those of the U. S. (See Antarctic Adventure and Research by Dr. G. Taylor, Appleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...more timorous colleagues. But he did not shock the high command in Washington. When General Malin Craig retired as Chief of Staff, he put the U. S. on notice that the U. S. military now wants its standing Army to be a fighting army, at least to the extent of five fully equipped divisions on constant peacetime call. Also on the military agenda, now that Congress has voted $961,293,102 to expand and equip the present Army, is a request for many more millions to stock complete equipment for a wartime force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Short Drum | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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