Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, the Japanese soldier is as tangled as the wires behind a telephone switchboard. From birth he has been taught the glory of dying for the Emperor. He knows what the manual says: "To die participating in the supreme holy enterprise of mankind (war) must be the greatest glory and the height of exaltation." Knowledge that he may die, that he may never go back to the gardens, the chrysanthemums, the neatness, the singing, the clean raw fish and warmed-up sake that are home, makes him in the field something quite different from what he was in peacetime Japan...
...bent on suicide, as popularly supposed. He will die, if he has to, but not eagerly. He is human; he can be cowed. Best description of his sensations in the face of death appears in Wheat and Soldiers, written by a young soldier after a year in China...
...trained as a babbitter, boring-mill operator, die maker and machinist was running a sewage plant...
...simply has not studied the progress of naval war in the last two years. The battleship is vulnerable to air attack and must be protected by aircraft. . . . I'm not a diehard who thinks that any warship can be built to withstand air attack, but I am a die-hard who thinks that the final showdown will be ships of the line against ships of the line, aircraft being equal." The burden of the Navy's new 150,000 tons will put a terrific strain on the present shipbuilding program. But it is expected to creak through. Even...
...long Girdler stays there depends upon how fast he can do the job at hand. "I was born and bred a steel man and want to die a steel man" says he at 64. He remains chairman of Republic Steel, whose directors last week voted to "sacrifice part of [his] time" to Vultee. He will devote his main efforts to the huge production problems involved in reorganizing and rationalizing the Vultee plant (a pioneer in developing aircraft assembly-line production) and that of Consolidated (which must share in the doubling of the bomber program announced by Bill Knudsen last fortnight...