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Karafuto (southern part of Sakhalin Island) 14,000 332,000 After Russo-Jap...
...they are to let themselves get complacent. When four once-bustling small arms & ammunition plants closed down a fortnight ago, many a patriot took note. Did that mean that the U.S. now has enough rifles, enough bullets already on hand with which to kill the last Nazi, the last Jap? What else could it mean...
...killed, 2,680 wounded. Most casualties (95%) were marines who fell on Tarawa's Betio island. The Gilberts' 5,700 Jap garrison was virtually wiped...
...massive pre-landing barrage. Warships poured in 2,900 tons of shells, planes dropped 700 tons of bombs. For every square yard of scant square-mile Betio there were 20 lb. of explosive.* Marines, watching the awesome show from their transports, chortled: "There won't be a Jap alive when we get ashore...
...result: U.S. official expenditures in China cost four to five times what they would if the currency market were free. Compared with other forms of subsidy to China, the cost is small. But economists in London and Washington see no economic sense in a pegged value until the Jap has been driven out, sources of revenue restored to normal and a beginning made in export-import trade...