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...industries are pretty well smashed. So are public utilities-electricity, telephone and telegraph, water supplies, streetcar and bus systems. Steel mills and shipyards are damaged, but probably in better shape than most Americans think. The bombing program never called for complete destruction of the steel industry; the Japs were deliberatelv allowed to waste manpower on ships which were sunk as soon as they took to the seas. Long accustomed to disaster, the Japs themselves may well be repeating an old saying: "The branches of the willow never break beneath the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Willow & the Snow | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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