Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without warning Assistant Secretaries Louis Arthur Johnson (War) and Charles Edison (Navy) suddenly announced the creation of a civilian advisory committee to work with the joint Army & Navy Munitions Board. Its personnel: Able Edward R. Stettinius Jr., young (38) whitehaired chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; American Telephone & Telegraph's President Walter S. Gifford; Sears Roebuck's Brigadier General Robert E. Wood, who, as Acting Quartermaster General, directed U. S. Army purchases in 1918; able though little known John Lee Pratt, a retired vice president of General Motors; M. I. T.'s Physicist Karl T. Compton; Brookings...
Panorama. Not far from his Berghof the Führer has built an even stranger retreat-a steel-and-glass "eagle's nest" atop Mt. Kehlstein. Few Nazis have seen it. Magnificent as is the view from the Berghof, it is surpassed by the panorama that opens below the eagle's nest-mountains stretching on over South Germany, into Ostmark, disappearing into the blue haze of distance in the south. Southeast lies Yugoslavia with its rich land of Croatia and the seacoast of Dalmatia stretching down the Adriatic. Eastward lies fertile Hungary, and Rumania with its oil wells...
Remember the Iron Duke? A stout old whale, with twelve-inch steel skin.* Forward of her two tall funnels, forward of her bridge-balancing tripod mast, in a heavily armored conning tower, calm little Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, stood giving orders during the biggest battle of them all, Jutland...
Italy. The mock battle ended in a great victory. The 50,000 troops reviewed at Turin were rhapsodized as "the steel vanguard of a nation in arms which intends to pluck victory in the light...
Believing that Government spending (for new public works, railroad equipment and housing, etc.) is necessary to tide over steel and other durable goods industries the summer and autumn of 1940, New Dealers now count on sagging indices. They asked whether Congress could revive (noted Barren's Index on building stocks was down 7.66% from July 28) July's stockmarket boom...