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...Estimates of the amounts expended on these airfields run as high as $500,000,000. As far as I could learn, we had no postwar rights of access to any of them. We do not seek dominance; we abhor imperialistic domination over native peoples; what we want is an even break. But in the islands of the Pacific and in other places there are many points which are essential to the military security of our country in this...
Scientists abhor anything that smacks of soothsaying, rarely let themselves get caught in a flat prediction. But into the serious studies of many eminently respectable scientists can be read some of the most fascinating long-range forecasting since Noah built the Ark. Such studies are the special province of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles,* which last week celebrated its third anniversary...
...protect castaways in shark-infested seas, the Navy announced a shark-repellent substance. A secret concoction which sharks abhor, it was developed by the Office of Scientific Research & Development in cooperation with Marine Studies, Inc., was tested in waters off Florida and Ecuador...
Italians will not fight well in World War II, the Packards conclude, because: 1) they have had little fighting tradition since the fall of the Roman Empire; 2) they abhor regimentation; 3) the military services, particularly the air force, are rotten with party politics and inefficiency; 4) their equipment is uniformly poor...
Latin-Americans never disliked North Americans as a people, but did heartily abhor many of their policies, according to Dr. David Vila, professor of Ethnology at the University of Guatemala, newspaper man, and good-will ambassador sent by the Nelson Rockefeller Officer of Pan-American affairs...