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...Namhkam and Wanting. But Namhkam was bypassed as a column of American-trained, U.S.-equipped Chinese troops crossed the Burma border into Yünnan. Other Chinese, from the opposite direction, were assaulting Wanting, and when this fell, the Ledo-Burma route for a road and pipeline to nourish the armies of China would be opened...
...Secretary Stimson announced that the Army has 3,657,000 overseas, of its total strength of 7,700,000. These men are on every continent and hundreds of islands from Iceland to Biak. (Peak A.E.F. strength in World War I was 2,057,675.) To nourish this great force supply lines stretch more than 56,000 miles, to every continent. Some 1,150,000 of the Army's troops outside the U.S. are in the Air Forces...
...decisive point. As this is not always possible, theory also teaches us to calculate moral factors: the likely mistakes of the enemy, the impression created by a daring action . . . yes, even our own desperation. . . . We must familiarize ourselves with the thought of honorable defeat. We must always nourish this thought within ourselves, and we must get completely used to it. Be convinced, Most Gracious Master, that without this firm resolution no great results can be achieved...
...Lack of transportation inside China makes it hard to move supplies from provinces relatively well supplied to those bare of even the plainest necessities. Lack of capital to nourish the small but intense efforts to mechanize handicrafts limits China's capacity to satisfy even a fraction of the mounting demand. Capital had discovered smuggling from Occupied China; the returns were fat and fast. As merchants saw that the authorities were not opposed, they plunged avidly into the get-rich-quick border trade...
...irrigation projects worth millions of dollars nourish endless acres of the finest apple trees in the U.S. In October the trees are dusty grey from spraying; the boughs are heavy with fruit; thousands of wooden poles prop up the limbs' ripe red burden. Nowhere else does nature conspire, with volcanic ash, rainless summers and cold autumn nights, to produce apples of such deep and vivid color...