Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this should have presented no grave problem. The New Deal had two great agencies (USHA. FHA) whose business was mass housing. RFC, WPA could also be enlisted to finance and build emergency houses. Ensconced in the National Defense Advisory Commission was keen-eyed, balding Atlanta Builder Charles F. ("Chuck") Palmer, to coordinate all defense housing. His consultant was young (36), aggressive Washington Builder Gustave Ring, who had made a tidy fortune on apartment buildings which U. S. housing agencies partly financed.* Last week Mr. Palmer figured that the U. S. defense industries needed 42,000 new housing units, the Navy...
...British, who have a poetic feel for names, the rechristening of the destroyers became an immediately grave question. One suggestion was that they should bear names of British West Indian islands. A typically British sour note was struck with the suggestion that they should bear the names of British heroes of the U. S. Colonial and Revolutionary period. But the shrewdest suggestion-and one which would please sailors who think name-changing is bad luck-was that they should keep their present names: quiet U. S. heroes like Herndon, Welles, Buchanan, Crowninshield, Abbot, Conner. This would point up the spectacular...
...matter of grave moment to Japan," growled the Tokyo press, describing De Gaulle as "a mere puppet of the British Government." Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of a big Japanese mission now in Indo-China to squeeze concessions out of the new Vichy-appointed Governor General, Admiral Jean Decoux, whipped out an ultimatum. He demanded on threat of immediate invasion the use of French IndoChina's chief port, Haiphong, as a naval and air base, and permission to transport Japanese equipment and troops over the French-owned Indo-Chinese Railway for an attack on South China...
...Japan the matter of grave moment was not the prospect of De Gaulle forces acquiring control of French Indo-China but of Japan being maneuvered out of her final chance to end the "China Affair." Her front, thinned out dangerously to cover 2,000 miles of Chinese territory, was being pushed back in the north, and southern Japanese forces, stranded in Kwangsi Province, faced methodical extermination unless aid arrived via French Indo-China. To advance farther into China was to risk having supply lines cut from the rear. Japan's only hope of quick victory lay in a flanking...
Added the Star-Times in a soberer vein: "Unneutral? Of course it is unneutral, in a world where neutrality has become Hitler's jest and Holland's grave. . . . Loud will be the laughter of Göring and Goebbels . . . when they read . . . the Post-Dispatch's editorial, translated, as it will be, in the Völkulcher Beobachter. . . . Roosevelt . . . acted in an hour of danger. . . . It was not an act of war, but an act to keep war away from America, now and forever...