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...might be a fire barrage laid down by planes dropping Molotov-cocktail mixture (gasoline and pitch) and incendiaries that would burn off the whole top of a small island or incinerate its occupants. Naval gunfire might be heavier, but there were limitations on the amount of shells warships could expend on shore fortifications and still be ready to take on an enemy fleet...
...Germans were not fighting to hold the island. To all effects, they had lost it. They were fighting for time to prepare their defenses in northeastern Italy and the Balkans. This singleness of aim was a real military advantage. They did not have to expend their forces to save places for the sake of the places. They were free to conserve their strength at one point, to expend it at another, solely to win time...
...from admitting that it is a source of news, A.P. insists that "the source of news lies in the event itself. Access to the source of news is open to all who are willing to expend time, effort and money. News is, therefore, a product which . . "belongs to the producer." In short, A.P. sensibly claims that news events cannot be monopolized. This view does not grapple with the charge, which is that the means of spreading the news is monopolized. Another A.P. argument is that "if the news gathered [by] A.P. and its members were required to be made available...
...training job was terrific. Whereas the Eighth Army had thousands of square miles of desert to range and thousands of gallons of Iraq-Persia oil to expend, General Anderson had to conduct his maneuvers on the great farm that is England, and ration his thirsty tanks to save shipping. He had to remember that a single armored division's exercises would destroy crops equal to one week's food for England. Consequently the First had very little training as an Army before it went off to the wars...
...once; above all, to get around to his rear and make him believe himself hopelessly surrounded - this was the Japanese method. In the endless green of the forest a few cyclists, a handful of snipers and a liberal use of firecrackers could force exhausted British troops to expend the strength they needed against the far more deadly, incessant attack from...