Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...added to her present ten battleships, will give Japan 18 capital ships. The U. S. today has twelve capital ships in the Pacific (plus three of ancient vintage in the Atlantic). It will get two more in 1941 (the 16-inch-gunned Washington and North Carolina), will have to wait until 1943 for its next capital additions-six battleships, including two 45,000-tonners...
...seven a day, for the moment had enough Allisons, but only because Bell and Lockheed did not yet need them in quantity. Both soon will; there will not be enough for all three for months. One or more will have to finish fuselages and wings, store them and wait for engines...
...home land.* I have always known the American people as a good and decent people, so it grieves me to realize that today America is the most unprogressive nation on earth. ... It is nice for the United States to say that we must settle everything peacefully, but if we wait for America we must perish in the years of waiting. So I say to America: Now is the time for action, and Japan will not hesitate when its hour arrives...
...Fleet based on Nikolaev and Sevastopol. If Hitler and Mussolini are seriously weakened so that he does not have to fear war with them, he might well attempt to extend his control down the west shore of the Black Sea, but that is an opportunity he can only wait and hope for. His major problem at present is defensive...
Said Knickerbocker: "We should go into war today-as soon as possible. The longer we wait the more chance we give the three gangster enemies of America to organize their attack upon us. ... If the British hold out until next spring and we aren't going to back them, they will say in effect: 'What's the use of going on? Why not make a deal with Germany at the expense...