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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese Navy? By last accounting it had five battleships, all too slow to have accompanied the Yamato in her sortie. There was little else-probably fewer than six carriers of any type, perhaps a half-dozen first-line cruisers, fewer than 20 destroyers. Gathered all together, it might add up to one not-so-fast task force-and what Japan needed now was a whole navy...
...ambitious plans for expansion. In addition to more routes in Mexico, the Mexican flag line expects to push south to Panama. It will also ask the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to land at Miami and Los Angeles. How much more Braniff will get in its own country, to add to its well-fed inland service, Braniff Airways, Inc. could predict no more accurately than the dozens of other U.S. lines ascramble for new routes. But one thing was certain: Braniff's Mexican cousin had its start, was in competition in Mexico with big-league Pan American and American...
...Add Gin and Lemon. In Elizabeth, N.J., proposals for a new water-supply system were discussed by City Engineer Tom Collins...
...Negro troops, could stand by the Ledo-Burma Road and proudly watch the supply trucks roll up to China. Through two rain-lashed monsoon seasons they had labored, helped string an all-weather pavement over 1,044 miles of mountain jungle, helped build some 600 bridges. Now they could add up the cost: for every mile, an estimated $1,000,000 and a U.S. soldier's life...
...manpower to ship our Allies the tools and let them make needed supplies with their own manpower. During the peace to come, it will be better to be paid for goods that still have useful life than 1) to write them off or 2) to take them back to add to the postwar surpluses on the U.S. doorstep...