Word: ideals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
William B. Ziff, author of the best-selling The Coming Battle of Germany, wrote in the current Reader's Digest: "Time is running out on us. We must act without further delay. We must utilize now all demolition carriers [bombers] in our possession. Whether they are ideal in their performance qualities or not, we must throw them headlong at the enemy. . . . We must have, then, one armed force to which all else will be auxiliary-an air force. We must have one production line to which all others will take second place -a production line serving that air force...
...singular and ideal" healing ointment for severe burns-long sought by good physicians-was announced last fortnight by Dr. Thomas F. P. Walsh of Chicago's Mercy Hospital. He spoke before Cincinnati's Institutum Divi Thomae, * whose staff, directed by Dr. George Speri Sperti, produced in their laboratory the ointment Dr. Walsh tested in the hospital. Dr. Sperti believes that the research work which produced the new treatment will "go down in history as second to none other, including the work of Pasteur...
...general Shaw was biologically cold: "My pockets are always full of the small change of lovemaking; but it is magic money, not real money." "The ideal love affair is one conducted by post," he told Author Pearson. One such love affair he conducted for years with Actress Ellen Terry. He had no sex life until he was 29, when he was "virtually raped" by Jenny Patterson, one of his mother's singing pupils. But he decided sex relations were "hopeless as a basis for permanent relations...
...arms, for themselves ("Our profession should always be crowned by heroic death in battle"). Once he had commanded men to die for the Emperor. Now, with impersonal fervor, he said: "For the Führer." He expected them to die only when necessary, and then to die coldly ("The ideal soldier thinks only when ordered to do so"). His role was not to lead them into battle, or to die with them, but to see that they had an unfailing supply of battle leaders and battle tools; and this he did with cool and consummate mastery...
...freight cars. Of these 25,000 will be coal cars to meet the greater demand for overland transportation of coal and coke; 35,000 will be low-sided gondolas, 10,000 will be flat cars, both of which types are ideal for carrying tanks, artillery, other heavy pieces peculiar to war production. These cars, purchased at the railroads' own expense, are an outright contribution to the war effort; the carriers already have a surplus of such equipment for their expected peacetime needs. New boxcars, which the railroads can always use, are limited to about...