Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Family Car. Will the plan save the Navy from what it most dreads and fears-a merger which would eventually swallow it up, air arm and all? The Army's proposal called for a single Secretary of National Defense. Under that kind of setup the Navy foresees "derogation of sea power as a part of the national forces." The fear is well founded. According to such men as General of the Army George C. Marshall, the Air Forces will relegate Navy & Army to a secondary position in any future...
...concentrate on educating all our people to live for human ends in a human world. We must now at last take education seriously, and devote an amount of thought and effort to it comparable to that which went into the making of the atomic bomb. Education may not save us, but it is the only hope we have...
Stubborn Men. There was silence. Then the President responded to his instinct for allowing other men the chance to save face when he opposed them. He could be convinced about bringing the fleet back, he said. But only, he added, "if I can be given a good statement which will convince the American people and the Japanese that ... we are not stepping backward." The Admiral asked a blunt question: "Are we going to enter the war?" "Not," said the President calmly, "if the Japs attack Thailand [Siam], the Kra Isthmus or the Dutch East Indies...
...officers whose duties require regular flying and those who must fly to retain "primary technical skill." By Jan. 3, the War and Navy Departments must submit recommendations for revising all forms of hazard pay, including that given to submariners (also 50% added). The brass would like to save their own flight skins, but may have to sacrifice some in a compromise to let the hard-flying lower ranks keep theirs intact...
...Third World War to Save Civilization had ended (with the help of the improved atom bomb) in the virtual extinction of the human race. The only visible survivors, a mother and daughter, were huddled near a rubble heap in the middle of Manhattan, which, blasted and fused by the bombs, elsewhere lay between its rivers as narrow, smooth and shiny as a coffin...