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...have a friend of the "let's-not-worry-about-peace-until-we-win-the-war" school, Professor Carr's latest work is the best obtainable antidote. If he recognizes the need for planning now but does not understand how it can be done, the book will furnish him with a generalized picture of one possible course of action. For, in this volume, the author has formulated both the clearest analysis of "what went wrong last time" and the most persuasive program for preventing a repetition of those mistakes that has yet appeared...
Recalled: the prediction of one-eyed Mexican General Joaquin Amaro that "the time will come when Latin America will have to furnish 10,000,000 troops to the Allies...
...million*, the Axis 28 million. But United Nations losses would be more than the figures indicate, because perhaps half the Russians have had some military training, while a great percentage of those in the United Nations' pool has not. Furthermore, Germany would have conquered enough people to furnish the 1,000,000 more workers it is estimated that she needs to man her factories, let alone those rebuilt on Russian soil...
Airplane engines (unlike automobile engines) are not broken in by actual use, but must furnish maximum power at the first takeoff. This means that airplane engines have to be broken in by running them on the ground at the factory for at least twelve hours without stopping...
...desecrate by her presence the huge cluster of monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which detest all forms of indecency...