Word: post-war
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...serious side, however, the survey is searching and thorough Questions range from pre-war attitudes of intervention to the settlement of the post-war world. Even opinions on military strategy are aked for, with one question on the opening of a second front. In the multiple choice answers France, Italy, Norway, Finland, and the Caucasus are mentioned as possible areas for the second front. Africa did not draw a single mimeographed line from the writes of the poll...
...Hitler tries hard enough, he may yet succeed in doing what Architect Sir Christopher Wren tried and failed to do nearly 300 years ago-rebuild the capital of the British Empire. To plan post-war London, Britain's Royal Academy formed in 1940 a Planning Committee consisting of 25 distinguished architects and civic leaders. The committee was headed by famed Civic-Developer Sir Charles Bressey (68) and Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (73), designer of London's Cenotaph and Washington's British Embassy...
...been learning airline transport technique, has all but officially militarized the entire operation. Pan Am employes were offered commissions and technical enlisted status to stay on the job. Many accepted; many others stayed with Juan Trippe, who may yet come out of World War II with many a profitable, war-built route for post-war operation...
...whole vision was centered on expanded post-war aviation; but he knew that the U.S. was in World War II long before Pearl Harbor. Injuries received in an E.A.L. crash last year prevented an Army commission; the War Department found him useful on special missions...
...only talked, but acted. Long before Pearl Harbor, the first state Committee on Public Safety was set up, and an efficient civilian defense organization was functioning by December 7. The future has been an object of serious thought, too, with the organization of a Post-War Readjustment Committee to prepare for a possible depression and drop in production. He has been an honest, efficient, and experienced Governor, and as such should be given the opportunity to serve Massachusetts for another term...