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...Said General McNair: "We must hate with every fiber . . . We must lust for battle; our object in life must be to kill; we must scheme and plan night and day to kill. There need be no pangs of conscience, for our enemles have lighted the way to faster, surer, crueler killing...
...must hate with every fiber of our being. We must lust for battle; our object in life must be to kill; we must scheme and plan night and day to kill. There need be no pangs of conscience, for our enemies have lighted the way to faster, surer, crueler killing. They are past masters. We must hurry to catch up with them if we are to survive...
...produce cotton, the one perfect wartime crop that produces food, fiber and shot. Compound lard, high explosives, stock feed, clothing, plastics, isinglass for planes and thousands of other products are produced from cotton. Very few articles can be made from soybeans that cannot also be made from cotton seed. We can grow more pounds of cotton seed per acre than we can soybeans, and we can harvest the cotton seed...
However gratifying to cotton farmers, the U.S. could have got along without most of this fiber, could really use the peanuts, soybeans and hogs which might have been grown instead. On Aug. 1 the U.S. had 10,590,000 bales of cotton in warehouses; the new crop will push total supplies to about 25,000,000 bales-enough to last two years, even at the present record consumption rate...
...majority of the graduates, in particular to those who are doing work on synthetics, explosives, or gasoline--investigations especially vital to the war effort. Munitions and explosives take up a large number of men, while the rubber situation has also created an acute shortage of specialists. Plastics and synthetic fiber, much developed during the last decade, are assuming more and more importance in the aeroplane industry...