Word: pipsqueak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production lines must slow up. If the Nazis hang on to what they have, German war planes will be inferior. In sum: the Germans, unlike the U.S., can't have it both ways in full degree. The same is also true of the Japs, whose aircraft industry is pipsqueak small...
Circumstances have indeed changed since the summer of 1940, when the U.S. decided to increase its pipsqueak army sevenfold. Then the U.S. feared that Britain might fall by September, that the British fleet might be surrendered to Hitler, that the U.S. might soon have to face an enemy whom the U.S. fleet could not cope with. Today most of these fears have passed...
...Army could make no move outside the hemisphere without Congress' say-so, thus advertising its intention to a foe who moves with lightning speed and without warning. This week's occupation of Iceland was a move the Army could not have joined on anything but pipsqueak scale...
...stand against the Lend-Lease Act, and published a devastating editorial attack on the Tribune's attitude.This time Friend McCormick did not follow his usual policy of ignoring Times criticism. His answer was a lead editorial titled "These Jackals Grow Too Bold." Calling the Times an inept, tottering pipsqueak sheet, the Tribune turned its contempt on "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria...
...worst and for which it is most dependent on foreign imports is manganese, a coal-like substance essential for hardening and toughening steel. As the world's No. 1 steelmaker, the U. S. has imported as much as 911,919 long tons a year (1937), all but a pipsqueak percentage from Russia, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Brazil, India, the Philippines. Like rubber, manganese has to travel a long, war-periled route to Pittsburgh and Chicago. Enemy control of the seas would put the great steel industry, vital for national defense, in a pretty...