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Flush Toilets & Farms. The inch-by-inch family farming here produces among the highest per-acre yields in the world, or Japan would long since have starved. There have been grave postwar shortages: fertilizers and farm supplies. Nitrates are now so scarce that human manure provides half the nitrogen used on farms. If flush toilets were installed throughout Japan, its agriculture would be wrecked overnight...
Blow Cold. Patterson thinks the airplane is still in the taxicab stage, and that the day of cheap mass transportation is years away. Nor does he think that some magical new discovery will hasten things much. He believes in inch-by-inch progress all down the line-starting, for example, by cleaning up the washrooms in airports. The recent squabble over whether airlines shall use G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) or I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) seems silly to him. Says he: "We need them both, one to check on the other. And we shouldn't use them until...
...there was no exultant wave of optimism. The people were taking victories as they took defeat, soberly and doggedly. And the news from Europe was a hard checkrein on enthusiasm-the compressed beachhead below Rome, the slow inch-by-inch bitterness of Cassino...
...Scheme. It was a vital goal of the counteroffensive which MacArthur began last June 30. Inch-by-inch land fighting had brought MacArthur's men laboriously to Lae, to Finschhaven in New Guinea, to Munda and Vella Lavella in the Solomons. Americans who toiled in the rain and heat to build airfields, Australians who fought to clear the enemy from Huon Gulf, made the aerial climax possible...
When these words were published in the German press five weeks ago, the long-awaited, ill-fated German summer offensive of 1943 had not yet spent its strength. Last week, after a relentless, inch-by-inch, 24-day counterdrive, the powerful Red Army seized Orel and drove on. For nearly two years Orel had been a key bastion of Hitler's forces in Russia. Now the Wehrmacht's high command issued a terse communiqué: "In the course of a shortening of the front in the Orel bend, the evacuation of the city of Orel, which...