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...could not immediately use the vast Palau fleet basin. But airfields in the southern Palaus would serve: 1) for bombing the Philippines-if MacArthur invaded the central Philippines instead of Mindanao, Peleliu would be closer to the invasion coast than Morotai; 2) for air patrols which could clamp the northern Palaus in a neutralizing vise. Last week marine flyers based on Peleliu were already strafing and bombing Babelthuap...
...sane, solid way to build a reputation. The only trouble was that, no matter how safely an officer tried to set his course, there were obstacles-like calculating Spruance and wizened, air-wise Marc Mitscher. And they were not passive obstacles: they were closing around him like a tightening clamp. They were closing inexorably on the Empire where Shimada had worked so hard and dully to be a great naval captain...
...Japanese took a leaf from the strategy book of General U.S. Grant. As Grant had sliced off the western half of the Confederacy by his Mississippi campaign, the Japs worked, with fearsome force, to cut off the western side of the clamp fastened on the Empire (see map) by Allied strategy...
Mexicana. In Mexico City, Gráfico reported that the Health Department was about to clamp down on "The Last Supper," a popular rat poison...
...never had made a nickel except by writing and publishing. From the publishing house Twain was reaping $100,000 a year-and pouring most of it into his inventions. There was Kaolatype (a chalk process for engraving). It had been going nowhere for years. There was the Twain bed clamp, designed to keep babies from getting wound up in the covers. It was Editor Webster, then an infant, who proved it unpractical. Nothing ever came of the bed clamp. There was the famed, ill-fated Twain printing machine-"the damned typesetter." It cost (in tinkering and development...