Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escorts (DEs), U.S. counterpart for Britain's corvettes, in transatlantic convoy. But the program as a whole is late. The destroyer-escort situation is worst, since only a handful have been delivered. As a result a single destroyer often convoys 15 hapless merchantmen across the Atlantic v. the ideal setup, which would be closer to one escort for every three freighters...
Friend & Foe. Bright as a dollar and full of information on underground resistance, French Communist Leader Fernand Grenier bobbed up in London. He table-thumped that all France is united behind De Gaulle as a symbol of liberation. Grenier "agreed that Giraud is the ideal man to lead the fighting forces for North Africa," but it was to De Gaulle that he brought a promise of support...
...America can and should be created, that such a union could serve as an example for reorganization of the world. He goes far back in American history to describe the development of unity in the Americas (Simón Bolivar, he says, was the spiritual founder of this ideal). Among the obstacles to this ideal, he singles out "the greatest stumbling block in the way of genuine inter-Americanism": the Monroe Doctrine, as it has been interpreted by the U.S. through the years...
...Mack Truck's big tank-part plant at Allentown, Pa. was fortuitously near an abandoned airport. So when tank production was cut back the Allentown plant made an ideal spot for Navy torpedo bomber production by Vultee Aircraft. Cost of the changeover (including fixing up the airport): $6,000,000 v. the $15,000,000 it would have cost to start fresh...
...mere inter-party knife-throwing. Lacking both the background and the training necessary for delicate diplomacy, Flynn owes his appointment to peculiar political circumstances. These circumstances make him much less than satisfactory to the Democratic Party of which he is chairman. But they do little to make him the ideal successor of the current minister, Nelson Johnson, and they may well serve to disrupt long-sought unity at home and abroad...