Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where To Go? Any foreign attaché looking at the new U. S. Army this spring will recognize it for what it is: a standing expeditionary force, designed for prompt, conscript expansion into an expeditionary Army of 750,000 active troops, 250,000 reserves. When Congressmen, scared by World War II, scream for underground bombing shelters in the interior U. S., for permanent anti-aircraft installations at Kansas City and points west, the General Staff in Washington shudders. Remembering that the U. S. Army has fought in China, Siberia, Central America, France, the General Staff has planned an outfit ready...
...ribbon) to symbolize his metamorphosis from a bug rider to a full-fledged jockey, he was signed up by rich Sportsman Herbert Woolf (at a reputed salary of $20,000 a year plus 10% of winning purses). In the Kentucky Derby, Peewee Flinchum will probably ride Woolf's Prompt Pay, by the same sire as Lawrin (1938 Derby winner). His following hoped he would have better luck in the Derby than he did during his first bugless day. He rode four horses, but nary a winner...
...instrument will not only provide prompt and accurate location of enemy batteries but will prevent such World War blunders as bombarding one's own troops of delaying attacks by underestimated gun-fire, for it will record the positions where shells are exploding...
...ships in the Mediterranean. The U. S. point: Italian ships are detained an average of only four days at Gibraltar, U. S. ships an average of 12.4 days. The State Department's demand: "This government must expect that the British Government will at least take suitable and prompt measures to bring about an immediate correction of this situation...
...loan now will not involve us through establishing a dangerous precedent," he said, "because if another crisis arises and there is pressure brought to bear on us to make a loan to some other country, we can point to Finland's good record as a prompt payer of debts and as a nation friendly...