Word: pre-war
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...fact is that the pre-war U.S. fighter program was nothing to boast about. Hap Arnold and others responsible for U.S. fighter design sorely misjudged the requirements of war. Notably, the U.S. fighters of 1938, 1939 and 1940 were under-gunned, under-armored. For this fact - and for the resulting combat deficiencies - General Arnold cannot wholly plead the natural innocence of peace. Britain went into the war, in 1939, with two fighters (the Hurricane and Spitfire) which were ahead of any U.S. fighter then in service. Both planes had been designed and developed in the years (roughly 1935-39) when...
Editor in Ohio. Fourteen pre-war isolationist Congressmen won renominations. For the defeat of No. 15, the loudest of them all, Cleveland newspapers could claim a big red apple...
...York. Editorialists thought the issues on the banks of the Hudson were Hamilton Fish's isolationism and his pre-war pro-Axis leanings. But actually, in the beautiful home country of Fish, Roosevelt and other gentry, the issues were: 1) Franklin Roosevelt; 2) outside interference...
This time Captain Patterson did not reply. But the captain has a daughter-brown-haired Alicia, 34, as smart as she is pretty. Long before Pearl Harbor, in her own Long Island tabloid Newsday, she had disagreed with her father's pre-war isolationism (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week she came to his defense in a signed column (reprinted in Aunt Cissie's Times-Herald...
...murmured the phrases that will live longer than his works. "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Like a thin spire of a phrase left standing from another epoch, the words ominously summed up the mood of the pre-War world...