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...make a hell of a lot of difference, of course, for it meant that the bloodiest war Europe had ever known was finished. "In all our long history, we have never seen a greater day than this," Winston Churchill told the crowds in Parliament Square. "This is a solemn but glorious hour," said President Harry Truman. "We join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity...
...Where in hell did this come from?" said Simpson. "I could be in Berlin in 24 hours!" Bradley: "I just got it from...
...opium market, pocketing American loans and hatching so many wartime scams that within five months of being installed at a rate of four to $1, the gold yuan had plunged to a rate of 1 million to $1. He further repeats the familiar charge that in 1934 the Generalissimo, hell-bent on settling scores with the Chinese Communists instead of fighting the Japanese enemy, followed the advice of a Nazi strategist, creating a scorched-earth policy and a famine that left a million Chinese dead...
...House budget would pick up another $15.25 billion in "unspecified savings." Explains a Republican leadership aide: "That usually means there's a cold chance in hell of getting any of it enacted." For example, the House would save $3 billion over three years in reduced Medicare costs, but without cutting benefits. The House somewhat wistfully hopes that the medical profession and private health-care services will voluntarily absorb increased costs...
...very tricky game in changing Coke. When the firm first came out with 10-oz., king-size bottles in the mid-1950s, many drinkers were beside themselves. If God had wanted Coke in 10-oz. bottles, he would not have created the traditional, green-hued 6l/2-oz. bottle. "People raised hell with me and said it didn't taste the same," said Crawford Johnson, president of Birmingham's Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United. "I told them, 'We put the same ingredients in it that we put in the little bottle.' But the difference between then and now is that we never...