Word: line
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio speech, old Senator Borah served notice that Franklin Roosevelt could expect no Blitzkrieg victory over Congress: "The only matter of difference ... is the sole question of whether we shall sell arms or not sell arms." Quickly Clark and Vandenberg followed this line, insisting it would be unneutral now, with war under way, to revise U. S. law to favor one set of belligerents against another. It was obvious that one serious display of over-caginess on the President's part could ruin his chances of success...
...loss of first-line combat planes in the first months of fighting is expected by the U. S. Air Corps if ever its new armada flies to war.* Such appalling losses put a premium upon a vast reserve of pilots. Last week the non-military Civil Aeronautics Authority took a long step to increase that reserve: it certified 220 U. S. colleges and universities for participation in its pilot-training program, prepared to name still more to share $5,675,000 voted by Congress for schooling 11,000 new fliers this year...
...First-line" planes would be only a small proportion of the total on hand in wartime. The rest would be in reserve, to replace losses...
Heading the list of line prospects and appearing on paper as the outstanding lineman on the squad is Bob Fisher, a nineteen year old Andover graduate whose father coached Harvard from 1919 to 1925. Fisher is a tackle, tipping the scales at 193 pounds...
...suppose the Allies begin to fall back, come what may. Theirs is now a cheerless outlook, unless M. Gamelin is as canny a magician as British propagandists would have us believe. Then Americans wishing to remain neutral must retreat to a second line: they must make a new resolve to stay out of this war at any price--Allies win or lose. They must maintain this resolve above the partners, hatred and sympathy. Successful in this they are successful in their...