Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual steel production of something less than 8,000,000 tons; coal in Korea and China; lead and zinc in Burma; bauxite in Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies; chrome in the Philippines; antimony in China. Her facilities for processing these metals are not altogether satisfactory. She can count on rice from Burma, Thailand, Formosa; sugar from the Philippines and Netherlands Indies; soybeans from China. Lumber, especially for shipping, worries her a little. For the time being, she is well set for aircraft machinery but needs certain precision tools and parts, such as exact ball bearings. She does not worry...
...drafting of more Negroes, who are not yet in the Army in proportion to the size of the Negro population; 2) an official change of heart about the size of the Army required by the U.S. (see below); 3) an earlier victory than any official is yet willing to count...
...Army camp performances have failed to dull Hope's zest for his work. Far & away the hardest-traveling Army camp trouper in Hollywood, he has visited so many camps in the last year (including a 16,000-mile Alaskan junket) that even his press agents have lost count...
When they left, 10,000 of the foe had been knocked out of action. Seven thousand had been killed (by actual count of bodies), 3,000 had been done in by disease, starvation, wounds or capture...
National morale, for you men at Harvard, is not something you should study in newspapers or polls. It is something you can find in yourselves. If, like some young men of the stricken nations, you look to a false security--if you count on an easy victory--if you think of doing something but not too much for the war--you may face the saddest of all fates: you may die, but die in vain, because you do not die soon or well enough...