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...Aiding the Allies crusaded up & down the land. In Chicago it held a mass meeting of 14,000 people, to whom Admiral William H. Standley (U. S. N. retired) declared: "We should throw more and more ships, air planes, munitions . . . into democracy's fight against Hitlerism." The White Com mittee, which pounded home the idea of sending 50 destroyers to help England on the seas, last week proposed sending 25 Army Boeing Flying Fortresses, mighty bombers with a 3,000-mile cruising radius, to help England...
...difference between wood and oil is that wood is mostly carbohydrates (com posed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) whereas oil is mostly hydrocarbons (composed of carbon and hydrogen only). Chemically these two great classes of compounds behave very differently. But economically the really important difference between wood and oil is that wood-burning locomotives are obsolete, whereas oil-burning Diesel trains are the height of modernity...
...Harry F. Guggenheim (see p. 54}, chairman of the "Wings for Willkie" com mittee, achieved a low point in defense debate, confusing the civilian CAB's apprentice-pilot-training program with the wholly separate advanced training of com bat pilots and calling it "mass murder." The week's actual defense progress...
...concept, even as an excuse for nonpayment of debts. But the most common interpretation - the one on which Prince Konoye rode to the Premiership in July - was as a promise of a one-party political system, vaguely like that of Germany or Italy. Last week, speaking before the Preparatory Com mittee for the New National Structure, Prince Konoye dispelled that illusion and made one thing very clear: he intends to bring about a peaceful revolution - on strictly Japanese terms...
...them was a shortage of troops. He turned it into a plug for conscription. Said he: "We are wasting time and ignoring basic lessons of history by months of discussing the volunteer versus the conscription system." Other faults he blamed on lack of training. He found smaller units (com panies, battalions, etc.) weak on the basic mechanics of fighting - patrolling, reconnaissance, communications. He found waste of man power. "Too many com manders," said he, "expected all officers and all men to be at work or in the fight all the time." He found poor teamwork between ground and air troops...