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...bigger problems cannot be solved so easily, however, since they all involve expenditure heavier than the Department thinks it can make. The Department is self-supporting within the University, paying its way on student medical fees alone. Doctors and ambulances cost money and the price, like most others, has risen. Fees, the officials argue, have not nearly kept up. Department administrators point out that they must budget carefully, since one epidemic could quite easily wreck any surplus on hand...
Whether through lack of mobility, of equipment, of tactical judgment, or a combination of these and other factors, they muffed several excellent chances to ruin the X Corps operation. They suffered casualties at least five times as heavy as those of the U.S. forces-perhaps even heavier-but after the defense perimeter around Hungnam had been erected, the Chinese seemed unable to utilize their greatest asset: manpower...
...marine officer said the U.S. fire was heavier than at Iwo Jima. A 3rd Division officer called it an "Anzio in reverse"-meaning that the U.S. was handing out the punishment instead of taking it. In one 24-hour period, the combined land, sea and air forces claimed 2,600 Communist casualties. Apparently tired of such losses, the Chinese Communists sent regrouped North Koreans into the fighting, and by week's end the North Koreans were bearing the brunt of the battle...
...Chinese artillery." Somebody indicated a still smaller arc on the map and asked: "What happens when they get here?" The major cocked an eyebrow at his questioner, shrugged and replied, with an air of finality: "Then, we've had it." As it turned out, the Chinese had nothing heavier than mortars...
...young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...