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General McNair wasted no time in repetitions. The time between the two mock battles had been too short to expect much improvement in leadership, reconnaissance or defense against aircraft. He patted the engineers on their sweaty backs for crack work in blowing up bridges (for the Second), building substitutes (for the Third), threw a bouquet at the Second Armored Division for its expert crossing of the Sabine River near the battle...
...this crisis, but for good. She must assume her place and her responsibilities in a war world, and she must lay firm foundations now for a League with teeth in it, as well as for true democracy at home and abroad. The idealistic phrases of World War I may mock us now. But they should not chill the hearts that hope for a more lasting society of nations. The American people must become united on peace aims as well as war strategy, and there is no time to lose...
This half-hour mock air raid furnished the wow-at-the-finish of the Fifth Annual Police Show last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It also scared the whey out of the 50,000-odd New Yorkers who bought tickets to it. The cast consisted of more than 700 New York cops and units from the city's new corps of 100,000 air-raid wardens. Sound effects were rebroadcast British recordings of one of last September's air blitzes, described by the excited cop announcer as "the London terrible bombings...
...Damon's production shake-up to reawaken interest in Republic. Its prize plane, the high-flying Thunderbolt (P-47) had already won it a plump Army order (total: $56,500,000, some of which was ticketed for P-43s). But last week not a single Thunderbolt (except the "mock-up") had yet been delivered. Few weeks ago Major General "Hap" Arnold, Air Forces chief, dropped in at the Farmingdale, L.I. plant. He was so impressed by what he saw that the Army more than doubled Republic's backlog (to around...
...Russian revolutions, was changed to a training ground, where men and boys hurriedly boned up on grenade-throwing and bayonet-thrusting. On the Neva's right bank, across from the Winter Palace, shipyard and metal workers, some of whom had stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, staged a mock battle. Every street got its barrier. In the factories men worked with guns beside them...