Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, more air-raid conscious than other parts of the country, felt more secure last week. With a minimum of red fire, the U.S. Navy commissioned the mightiest fortress in New England's once thin aerial defenses. At Quonset Point, R.I., on the western shore of Narragansett Bay, Commander Andrew C. McFall listened to a few speeches, then took com mand of the Navy's newest and one of its largest air stations. The colors were hoisted, the watch set, and Quonset Point buckled down to work...
...south it was the same. The tardy Hungarians, though handsome and horsewise, were mechanically thin; and went slowly in Galicia. The Rumanians, though bewitched with the prospect of stealing something from Russia, were bothered by lack of real German support, were bewildered by Red parachutists in the Ploesti oil fields and in the border town of Jassy. Soviet fifth columnists in Jassy joined parachutists in giving the Rumanians two days of terror, which Iron Guardists finally answered with terror-by executing "500 Jewish Communists...
Japan. Glory wears thin against the grindstone of saddened days. It was all glory in Tokyo four years ago as the war for Asia burst. "Without cessation," wrote an American correspondent, "from 5 a.m. till noon . . . departing troops rode to military barracks in trucks, busses, streetcars and taxicabs, completely blocking traffic along the main highways. The truckloads of cheering soldiers, waving flags and banners and singing war songs, followed each other so closely that they extended in a line as far as the eye could see. . . . Children in the street waved flags and joined in the war songs." Factories blazed...
...begins to shed his thin civilian skin, the Jacksonville cadet finds his existence pretty comfortable. There are the six tennis courts, a swimming pool, a golf driving range, the Cadet club where tax-free Tom Collinses sell for 20?. Outside his hard-driven hours he has no responsibilities. With $75 a month to fritter away on weekends or payments on a car, he seems to have ample funds for his brief periods "ashore"-Saturday nights and Sundays...
...kept there, the U.S. will have to rub out what it has done and start over again. For, in expanding the field Army from some 210,000 regulars (Sept. 1, 1939) to 1,448,500 (last week), the staff has had to spread its three-year professionals perilously thin. Only two divisions (First and Third) are now made up exclusively of three-year enlisted soldiers. The rest are compounds of draftees, reserve officers, regulars. In the 18 National Guard divisions, bulk of the Army's man power, the complication is worse. In all the 15 regular divisions (including Armored...