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Commanders, weapons, many of the Navy's pre-war plans and conceptions failed to meet the test of war and had to be changed in the first year. Admiral King and his quality of inward hardness neither failed nor changed. The Navy's judgment of him, of what he could do and of how he would do it, was one judgment that withstood the fires...
...different set of figures. Not 45,000 planes, says he, but a fantastic 600,000. Any such fleet would need 2.5 million pilots, a total airline personnel of 20,000,000, plus 122 billion gallons of gasoline per year-two and one-half times the world's pre-war gasoline cracking capacity...
...participants and spectators to the fight, the Chicago Sun's Robert Lasch did some pregnant soliloquizing: "Don't make the mistake of assuming that this is a struggle over the dead issue of pre-war isolationism. What men stood for before Pearl Harbor has been washed out by the elections. It is what they stand for now and in the future that matters. ... I think we shall find that the division, though hinging upon our future foreign policy ... is the progressives against the reactionaries all over again. ... If you are a reactionary at home, you are most likely...
...products. Each of the synthetics is superior to natural rubber in at least one respect and for at least one use. Yet none claims to be perfect. Each will improve with further research, and ought to supersede natural rubber in its special field. Rubber itself may never regain its pre-war place, may join natural dyes, lacquers, resins, and perhaps silk in limbo...
...execution of President Roosevelt's suggestion, as set down by Professor Glueck, would of necessity force the placing of the war guilt on the Axis nations, since, under his plan, no members of the United Nations would be tried for war crimes. In view of the pre-war manipulations of Messrs. Chamberlain and Bonnet, who represented the temper of Britain and France at the time, such a stand would be both false and farcical. The trial of men for actual war crimes would involve various legal technicalities, such as the definition of a "war crime" and the decision...