Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wartime controls were lifted faster than the most hopeful had ever expected. War-born bureaus cut their staffs with vigor (WPB was down to 11,000 from a high of 23,000). Said WPBoss "Cap" Krug: ''The way to get going is to get going...
Last week the U.S. position was: planes with atomic bombs could reach any spot in the world. When they got there, they could destroy so much faster than the victims could rebuild that surrender was the onlv possible result...
...power was the climax of a 150-year trend in which armies grew bigger & bigger, and supplies of materiel per soldier grew even faster. Basic U.S. superiority was measured in such figures as 100,000 planes (far more than all the rest of the world's), 737 billion railroad ton miles (half of all the world's), 60,000,000 tons of shipping (two-thirds of all the world's). These symbols of bulk power no longer had the same significance...
That familiar plague of practical internationalism-language trouble-had also contributed to the delay. Even before the Potsdam statement needled the London conference to faster action, the British, French and Russian legalists working with U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson had reached substantial agreement. The joint "master trial" (probably in the Nürnberg Court House) will be followed by thousands of local trials in each of the injured countries...
There is another threat to civilian drivers: OPA is now giving out gas coupons for more gas than PAW is allotting civilians, thus drawing down reserves as much as 100,000 barrels a day faster than anticipated. Before long, there may have to be a reckoning...