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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's other enemies were Russia and China. Itagaki as War Minister, excusing his protracted failure to close the "Chinese Incident" and justifying bigger & bigger war budgets, stamped China's Chiang Kai-shek as a personal enemy to be exterminated. He repeatedly pointed to the U.S.S.R. as a Communist peril and an Asian rival to be driven from Japan's ordained sphere. Less often, less pointedly in the middle '30s, when Japan was shaping the final blows to come, did he and other military spokesmen refer to the U.S. as an enemy. But the U.S. never...
Most of the routes handed out are already flown by U.S. airliners on a willy-nilly, fly-when-you-must basis. But within a few months this will change to a worldwide air-commuting service far bigger than anything air-minded fanatics expected to see before 1950. Thus American and T.W.A. will fly to London at least 24 times every day; United and Pan Am will wing to Australia and India 20-30 times weekly; Braniff, Eastern and Panagra will zip to Central and South America almost as often as crack trains cross...
...production held close to the all-time peaks in the July 25 week, and TIME'S Index was 177.4 (estimated), 0.8 point above the preceding week's final figure. Reason for the rise: bigger steel production and increased electric-power output...
...Unprecedented concentrations of very heavy, semi-mobile artillery are the newest feature of Mot pulk. Star pieces (shown in Nazi films) are two immense mortars: the Krupp-built "Thor," a 42-cm. (about 17-in.) monster, bigger than the biggest U.S. battleship gun; and a 61.5-cm. supermonster, mounted on a four-track rail truck. These presumably were the weapons which helped to pulverize Sevastopol. They were far too big for use on quickly shifting fronts such as the Don. But, if Rostov and Stalingrad fell under siege, the Russians would probably feel their weight again...
...Yale's undergraduates registered for the summer session (a bigger proportion than at other Ivy-League colleges), a deputy of President Charles Seymour announced to them: "We are following the military concept that students are only loaned to universities in order to prepare them better for duty with the armed forces and industry." Faculty war counselors promptly went into a huddle with each student, signed him to a specific course of war training. Some 75% of the students elected enlistment in the Army, Navy or Marine Reserves. The rest chose to prepare for war jobs in industry...