Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pont plant at Perth Amboy, N.J., where hexamine is made. The other ingredients of the explosive are secret, but the Army described its properties: it explodes faster and more violently than TNT. Apparently it has been used so far only in bombs, for which it is ideal...
Today the "Thach Weave" and the four-plane section are standard and regarded by the Navy as the ideal use of the fire power and ruggedness of its Grumman Wildcats against the nimble but destructible Zero. When the Navy got a newer fighter-the Vought Corsair-it found weaving good for it, too. Said one Marine pilot on Guadalcanal: "We knock them off with the Thach Weave...
...good health, it will be necessary as a practical measure to concentrate on intermediate goals which can be progressively raised. . . ." The conference made public a minimum dietary standard to provide a yardstick for judging the sufficiency or insufficiency of the diets of all peoples, and translated this into an ideal American diet. The diet, for one person, for one day: Ten ounces of grain products, such as bread and cereals. Slightly more than one pint of milk. A half pound of starch-rich vegetables, such as potatoes or yams...
...democratic leaders groped after the mirages of modernity: Mirage 1. Believing that foreign policy's chief goal is peace, pacifists were responsible for helping to bring on the two great World Wars. "Until all the nation's rivals and potential enemies are irrevocably committed to the pacifist ideal, it is a form of criminal negligence to act as if they were already committed to it." Mirage 2. Disarmament "is applicable, if at all, only to Tibet, which has no for eign relations, cannot be invaded, is not worth conquering, and has no outlying commitments. . . ." Mirage 3. Isolationism never...
...ideal of collective security resulted in Wilson's attempt, through the League of Nations, to establish "a union of 50 juridically equal but otherwise unequal states, and not the evolution of a union from a nucleus of firmly allied strong states. ... If the League was a practical instrument, it contained an alliance, and all good and true men, including Wilson, were opposed to any idea of an alliance; if in fact the League outlawed alliances, and still sought to enforce peace, then it was an unlimited commitment supported by no clear means of fulfilling...