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...Melchor Leon, a Mexico City souvenir merchant, had given the U.S. about $9,000, one-fourth of his sales to U.S. customers...
...Enemy's Will. Up to last week 307 B-29 missions had been run against Japan, 276 of them by LeMay. In July, at a cost of only eleven planes, 40,000 tons of bombs (almost one-fourth of the overall Marianas total) were dropped on 39 manufacturing centers and 13 isolated factories. The three wings had grown to five with the arrival of Roger Ramey's 58th and Frank Armstrong's super-duper 315th...
...crowd did not come. At the first session, the room was less than one-fourth filled; at another session only four of the committee's 23 members were present. Was this a true test of the public's attitude? Did indifference mean that the U.S. public, except for vocal minorities, was completely sold on the idea? Opinion polls have shown that most U.S. citizens now-while the war is still on-favor compulsory peacetime training...
Malaria "has been reduced to one-fourth its incidence in the early part of the war so that the overall death rate from malaria in the Army is .01%. . . . Atabrine has been found more effective . . . than qui nine." Most effective preventive: mosquito eradication by the wonder insecticide D.D.T...
...fire raids on Nagoya tore a great swath through the center of Japan's third largest city and major aircraft production center. Two raids by more than 500 bombers each burned out nearly one-fourth of the city, hit the Mitsubishi Aircraft works (world's largest in area) and some 30 other military targets. At week's end B-29s turned on Hamamatsu, 60 miles southeast of Nagoya, to bomb more factories...