Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is the crux of the matter. Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...
...American planes by day or by night and at all speeds and altitudes which the B-36 can operate on military missions, can locate the bomber, intercept the bomber, close on the bomber, and destroy the bomber . . . It is folly to assume that a potential enemy cannot do as well . . . The unescorted B-36 is unacceptably vulnerable...
...Chief of Staff, shouted: "Am I supposed to be a witness here?" He added: "If I didn't make that statement, I'm willing to make it now." Radford retorted mildly: "We haven't quite reached that stage. We have camera guns that do almost as well...
...what responsible man in any service talked of a "cheap and easy" blitz war? General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, had been specific on that point. "Veterans of the Eighth, the Fifteenth, the Twentieth and other historic Air Forces," he said on July 2, "know very well that there are no cheap and easy ways to win great wars." The way Congress had apportioned funds almost equally among the Navy, Army and Air Force also seemed proof that no one was counting on an "atom blitz...
...course Munro still has time to change his mind in favor of a more conventional lineup. But no matter what he decides, he will have to provide a better scoring punch against the rough, well-conditioned Cadets...