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...billion) represented the largest flow of cash into consumers' hands of any month in U.S. history. That this unprecedented income flow did not automatically produce an unprecedented price inflation-i.e., a much higher dollar volume of retail sales -once again proved that the people can still sometimes outsmart the economists...
...fact that Germany was not equipped to fight a long war and has been forced to live upon her military capital since the failure to win a decision in 1941? How much of the German decline has been due to the fact that the Russians have learned to outsmart and outfight them...
...record. He also commanded one of the seven armies which saved Moscow in the crucial year-end battle of 1941. Russian newspapers have marked him for his ability to inspire his men and learn the new lessons of war, his mastery of all military branches, his ability to outsmart the Germans...
...plot hangs on Hope's misadventures as a correspondent, beginning with his recall from Moscow because he was scooped on the Nazi invasion of Russia and going on to his efforts to outsmart an Axis spy ring in Washington. The devious chase leads him to boudoirs, Niagara Falls, a burlesque queen's bed, a beauty salon and finally to the spies' council of war in the salon showroom, where Hope tries to conceal himself by posing as a clothes dummy on a bicycle. His mugging in this perilous situation, marked by vain efforts to regain a dropped...
Reducing Zero. He carried model airplanes with him. At mess, at recreation, on the field, he fished them out, put them through fighting maneuvers, figured out play after mass play to outsmart the Jap. He analyzed the enemy's crack Zero fighter, reduced its performance to ten or eleven categories (climb, speed, firepower, etc.). Beside that record he set the performance of the old P-40, decided the P-40 was superior in two or three categories. He concentrated on these categories, and no A.V.G. man thenceforth tried to compete with the Zero except in power plays Chennault laid...