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...skin-of-the-teeth days, when a Japanese invasion of Hawaii was more than a possibility, U.S. authorities declared that ordinary U.S. greenbacks were no longer legal currency. Greenbacks overprinted with the word "Hawaii" were substituted. Reason: if Hawaii were captured the monetary loot would consist of nothing more than "invasion money" which could not be used in international exchange...
...facts stuck out of this formula with bayonet sharpness: 1) the plan amounted to a partition of Germany-and the political and economic consequences for Europe might not be so apparent to Washington as they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...
Costa Ricans thanked the petulance of a neighboring dictator for an elegant revision of the national diet. It used to consist chiefly of beef. But Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza changed that. Wounded by Costa Rica's hospitality to his political enemies, he closed the southern frontier to the export of cattle. His Costa Rican neighbors thereupon turned to sea turtle -a delicacy formerly earmarked for gourmets...
...total casualties so far consist of 20% dead (i.e., before they can be given medical attention) and 80% wounded. Of the wounded, about half are able to walk. But the other half are hurt worse than Americans have ever been hurt and lived. Nobody in the tremendous U.S. medical service in Normandy underestimates the cost of the invasion...
Though not yet charted in detail, the new office of military science appeared likely to consist of a board of top U.S. scientists. The board would order and supervise Government-financed research projects, which might either be farmed out to university laboratories under contract or carried out in Government laboratories under the board's direct control. Its object would be to keep at least a nucleus of civilian scientists at work on preparedness after...