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Retreat from Neutrality. In June 1941, when the U.S. had decided to relax some of the niceties of,a ruinous neutrality, the U.S. Army set up its own Ferrying Command to deliver bombers to England itself. Its chief: the late Major General Robert Olds, then a colonel...
...year-old TIME Correspondent Jack Belden, Burma was not just a politico-military tragedy. It was also a fantastic personal adventure, a dream, a series of violent, sick, hot, ruinous and sensuous images. He crowds them into a dynamic account of the Burmese ordeal...
...What religion could man worship to fill the aching heart that all the glory of the good material things of life had left empty? "There is no sure shield against the tyranny of this ruinous passion for possession," said Britain's gentle, eloquent, 77-year-old teacher W. Macniele Dixon, "save a transference of our affections from possession to admiration, from immoderate craving for wealth and power to an intense longing for beauty and excellence...
...England Governors predicted a "completely ruinous fuel oil shortage" and begged for help. Louisiana's Governor Sam Jones reported "almost universal" opposition to rationing in his State. Of Detroit's 546,000 passenger car owners, nearly all of them war workers, 166,000 neglected to register, and OPA had a choice of extending the Dec. 1 date or risking lowered war production. Some Oklahomans refused to register for gas books. Texas was maddest...
Along the famed road from Burma the Japanese seemed to be rushing like a flood wave on the Yangtze, irresistible and ruinous. The mere boundary between Burma and China did not dam them. They pressed headlong across into Yünnan Province, where the hills are cruel and the Governor is called The Dragon and the tribesmen are not hospitable...