Word: rearmaments
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...slow production rate of the Allison engine plant in Indianapolis has been the biggest disappointment in the air rearmament of the U. S. Only high-powered (1,000 h.p.) U. S. liquid-cooled engine, the Allison is the U. S. Army Air Corps's one present hope for building airplanes around slim, streamlinable power plants. It will continue to be the only hope until another, possibly the Rolls-Royce Merlin (TIME, July 15), is put into production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about...
...with strategic materials he needs; to prosecute trade and political penetration in South America in order to prepare for his ultimate attack-and perhaps to subsidize a few Nazi revolutions; even to promise to make a lasting peace with the U. S. on condition that the U.S. stop rearmament. In these and other ways, including propaganda for "international friendship" he may succeed in postponing U. S. preparations for defense and hastening the time when he is ready to attack...
...Laval and his fellow Rightists, the Front Populaire was responsible for the subsequent degeneration of France. The Popular Front let rearmament lag while it pushed through its reforms. The Popular Front sent to Loyalist Spain munitions needed at home. The Popular Front pushed Italy into the Axis. The Popular Front undermined those institutions represented by the slogan of fascist France: Labor, The Family, The Fatherland. So thought, and still thinks, the Right...
...long war between U. S. business and the New Deal, one of the wordiest sectors has been in the neighborhood of SEC. Last month, in the truceful atmosphere engendered by Rearmament, this sector began to grow quiet. Last week, on one of Wall Street's sorest salients, there was Peace...
...until the campaign is well along will it be clear just what, as President, Willkie could or would do for U. S. business. Die-hard Old Guards were still grumbling last week at his endorsement of many a New Deal reform. New Dealers pointed out that if rearmament is to proceed, no candidate can make an honest campaign issue of budget balancing or lower taxes. But Wall Street believed (in the words of Financial Writer Ralph Hendershot) that Willkie "will get more for the Government's money." And thousands of U. S. businessmen, turning their backs on President Roosevelt...