Word: rearmaments
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Built on Long Island, the Thunderbolt is a lineal descendant of "Sascha" Seversky's P35 pursuit ship of 1937. Before the big rush of U.S. rearmament, Seversky's stockholders kicked out their mercurial president, thoroughly reorganized the company. But when the heat was really put on by the U.S. Army Air Forces last May, Republic Aviation Corp. (the new name) decided that it needed a big-league production man at its controls...
...help being incensed to cold fury by the hypocrisy of the Lindberghs, the Nyes, the front groups who have attempted to discourage our rearmament by whatever means, and who now seek to divert attention from ourselves by criticizing our alleged unpreparedness...
Until December 7, 1941, an honest and conscientious man might well disbelieve in the rearmament program, and advocate a policy of military and spiritual isolation. War was remote; it might well have seemed incredible to many that distant nations could have designs on our economic and institutional integrity. Although "unofficial" agencies in Germany, Italy and Japan lovingly described the havoc which was planned for the American nation-now agents of the world-wide German revolution had been working for years in preparation for disrupting and devastating civil war which would be ignited at an appropriate time-truly patriotic men might...
...magnesium became, for a brief moment, one of the great bottlenecks of rearmament...
...have sold magnesium to Germany before the war as low as 21? a lb. Dow's magnesium costs are inextricably tied up with other chemicals, notably bromine, which are recovered simultaneously. If some of Dow's first costs can be written off against emergency production for rearmament, most chemists expect Dow can keep its prices well in line with competition...