Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army of 677,000 men with twelve divisions and a budget of $4.5 billion ¶ An Air Force of 440,000 men with 9,875 aircraft in 58 groups (instead of the 48 the President had recommended) and a budget of $6.2 billion-up about $800 million from the President's budget. ¶ A Navy and Marine Corps of 527,000 men with 731 ships (including eight heavy carriers), 7,783 planes and a budget of $5 billion...
...done only by land-based planes such as we now have. We will not necessarily have to send our land army over there. In the next war, as in the last war, let us equip soldiers from other nations and let them send their boys into the holocausts instead of sending our own boys...
Rebel's End. Instead of going to college after high school, Frankie first had to go to work. He was a good salesman and in a year he made enough money selling children's swings, and later electric drills, to start himself out at the University of Washington. He had become a serious young man, a reader of H. L. Mencken's green-covered American Mercury-not a radical, merely an earnest explorer of panaceas for the common man. Then father's health began to fail...
...went to Milwaukee's Brand. Chief reason why he was picked by a board of judges that included Author Mary Jane Ward (The Snake Pit): he has stopped using "restraint" (hospital lingo for straitjackets, "camisoles," belts, wristcuffs, etc.). In his ward, Brand has been trying kindness and reasonableness instead...
Gumdrop Remembrance. Actually, frightful was the word for most of it, and the worst pieces were generally the ones that relied on ideas instead of shapes. (Low point: a head of Christ with a crown of bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples...