Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lank, long-nosed Southern politician, weak from fever, stood on the deck of the cruiser Indianapolis just outside New York Harbor and proudly saluted 81 steel-gray warships in the mightiest display of naval strength ever to pass before a President. By then everybody but pacifists agreed that Claude Augustus Swanson, who had got his job for reasons of political expediency, was one of the best Secretaries of the Navy the U. S. ever...
...Administration wants to amend the embargo provision out of the bill-possibly by a cash & carry clause (not to be confused with the last law's cash & carry provision which applied to "nonlethal weapons"-cotton, oil, steel, etc.; this would apply to actual arms). If this should happen Britain and France would be able to count in the event of war on the armament and powder factories of the U. S. as long as they had money with which to buy. They would have enough money for a time. Together, the British and French have about...
...embargo limited merely to lethal weapons, would not close U. S. ports to shipments of cotton, copper, steel, wheat to Britain and France. In the last war most of pre-1917 U. S. trade with the Allies was in raw materials. They did most of their own fabrication of guns & powder. There is always Canada, where a vast system of U. S.-owned branch factories would most likely spring up to manufacture armament and airplanes for an anti-Hitler coalition. But an embargo on raw materials would mean the obsolescence of the American merchant marine, or at least its diversion...
...case, the U. S. cannot make a decision of any sort that will not profoundly alter the balance of world power. With half the steel capacity of the world, with immense reserves of cotton, oil and wheat, any U. S. decision that materially limits war-time shipments would in effect alter world geography as much as if Hitler seized the Ukraine. Lesser embargoes would amount to lesser geographical rearrangement. So regardless of intention, the U. S. plays a part in power politics-with the responsibilities and the risks of a world power...
...News also is a vigilant critic of the Government's protection policies (the latest issue complains that Government-supplied sandbags are of inferior quality and quickly disintegrate) and a mine of cheerless advertising. "An Evertrusty Steel Helmet is an absolute necessity," declares the manufacturer of an extensive line of respirators, decontamination bins, asbestos clothing and safety lamps. "How Many Closets for An Air-Raid Shelter?" asks a maker of chemical toilets who advises everyone to write for his free booklet, Sanitation in Air-Raid Shelters. For protection against fiery thermite bombs home-owners are urged to use Kimoloboard. Other...