Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt followed up this warning by saying that $150,000,000 would have to be added to next year's Navy budget if work was to go ahead on six new battleships. Besides expanding the fleet and the ground forces, air forces must be geared up by mass production of planes, as they are doing abroad (see p. 18). And private utilities must be stimulated to spend $1,000,000,000 if the U. S. is to have adequate wartime power resources. Observers took all this as a tip: watch for billion-dollar Army & Navy items...
Poland has some 24,000,000 Roman Catholics, nearly 75% of its population. Like most east-European nations, it has also an autonomous Orthodox Church and a Greek Catholic or "Uniat" Church, in communion with Rome but using its own form of Mass. Poland's Ukrainians are about equally divided between the Orthodox and Uniat Churches, which have been so friendly that the Uniat Primate is also a leader of the Orthodox faithful. The Primate, Count Andrey Sheptytsky, Arch bishop of Lwow, is almost seven feet tall, but paralyzed in arms and legs so that he cannot preach. Instead...
...house of Atreus served the Greek, or as Faust and Don Juan serve the writers of the world. Lincoln's story is well-known, well-loved, an advantage for the playwright greater than the most smashing plot would be; for an audience bringing with it a quivering mass of associations is ready beforehand to participate in the playwright's particular interpretation of Lincoln's life...
...planned by public authority, but perhaps it is not necessary to have it at all. Perhaps we can still find a formula which, in the basic industries at least, will eliminate the evils of destructive competition while securing an adjustment that may be expected to stabilize employment and mass purchasing power. The search for such a rule is the task which has been committed to the Temporary National Economic Committee...
GLOUCESTER, Mass.--The third race for the International Fishermen's trophy was postponed today for a ninth time so that official measurement of the disputed waterline and sail area of the two contenders may be taken tomorrow. The race will be sailed Sunday--weather permitting--twice around an 18- mile triangle off Gloucester, the race committee said