Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appalled by the thought of having to fight, a schoolboy in Los Angeles and a World War cavalry veteran in Waterbury, Conn., committed suicide...
Detroit editors listened intently to some motor and oil bigwigs who said there would be no European war, and who welcomed Hitler's firming grip on Central Europe because, they said, it would bring order out of chaos there. Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal...
This disposal of U. S. seapower was cause for thought by Admiral William Daniel Leahy and others of the Navy's high command. As Chief of Naval Operations, William Leahy has a profound feeling for the unity of the Fleet, a conviction that its main strength should ever be concentrated and ready for concerted movement to a threatened point...
Adolf Hitler has given Germany so many territorial presents in the past three years that, as a present for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday this week, the German Government thought of giving one to him-Danzig...
Some military experts have long thought that, rather than a suicidal attack on the subterranean forts, tank traps and concrete pillboxes that guard the French and Belgian frontiers, German tacticians might attempt a lightning flank attack through the lightly armed Netherlands...