Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin chain of islands picketing the vast Red-dominated land mass of Asia, Douglas MacArthur stood overwhelmingly outgunned, outmanned, and out-planed by actual and potential Soviet power. In every category of military strength (except the atomic bomb), the Soviet Union, stretching from the Bering Strait to Vladivostok and deep inland, held at least a ten-to-one superiority. Reported Douglas MacArthur: the time to prepare is now. He asked immediately for six divisions, hundreds of aircraft and increased naval forces...
...Manhattan's I. J. Fox, Inc., biggest U.S. fur retailer, canceled plans for four new New York City stores, decided instead to lease fur departments in smaller department stores all over the U.S. By plugging lower-priced furs, the company-like other furriers-hoped to make up in mass sales for the slump in its luxury coats...
...were about ready to give up on Preston Tucker last week. Said a committee claiming to represent 500 of them: "Preston Tucker is so embroiled in litigation that his services to the [Tucker Corp.] are of doubtful value . . . Under present management there will never be a Tucker automobile in mass production." The dealers wanted to buy out Tucker's controlling interest in the auto company and put in a boss with "a background of successful... experience." Preston Tucker said that he would step down "if it would insure adequate financing to produce automobiles...
...country's major writers with Joseph Wood Krutch's well-balanced Henry David Thoreau and Emery Neff's Edwin Arlington Robinson. In Nathaniel Hawthorne: the American Years, Robert Cantwell gave an unorthodox interpretation and filled in the background of Hawthorne's time with a rich mass of detail. Randall Stewart's Hawthorne was a more conventional biography...