Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours to join the British, go to America to be interned or scuttle his ships. The French officers began to argue with one another. Many a sailor refused to fight. Most of them did not even prepare their vessels for action (it takes a considerable head of steam to work the turrets of a battleship...
Hull down over the horizon, the British capital ships' 15-inchers blasted away at the harbor (top right). The French ships, still at anchor when the bombardment began, were lined up for the slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already...
...visitors, planned a political safari. Said Mr. Pryor last week, giving the impression of a man waiting for the signal to set off a howitzer: "Wait until after September 15." Strictly amateur, the Associated Willkie Clubs, whooped up by 28-year-old Lawyer Oren Root Jr., were under full steam in over 900 cities...
Last week the U. S. defense program resembled a great locomotive, ready to go. Steam was up, in the shape of plans made and contracts drawn-$11,000,000,000 worth. But so far this giant locomotive had not yet turned a wheel. Its drive-rods were at dead centre...
...built, not until the 15 supplementary loading and fuse plants are completed, can General Wesson and his staff of technicians breathe easily. They will not breathe easily for a long time. Best estimate is that Du Pont and Hercules, starting their building almost together and putting on full steam, will not be in production for twelve or 13 months. How soon other contractors would volunteer to take on the building and operation of other similar plants, no one in Washington would venture...