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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come. The future must bring equal wages for equal work regardless of sex or race. . . . The Democratic Party cannot long survive as a conservative party. . . . Democrats who try to play the Republican game inside the Democratic Party always find that it just can't work on a national scale...
...among the first to state that a modern war must start with a coordinated assault by tanks and aircraft. The Germans were at work on this nucleus of the Blitzkrieg idea, but the rest of Europe paid little attention. The Russians were the first to experiment on a large scale with mass dropping of parachute troops, and among the first with gliderborne assault forces. But it was the Germans who first carried these tactics out in battle. Somewhere along the line, the Russian experiments languished...
...Frank Lloyd Wright, No. 1 U.S. modernist architect. Wright would "get further" if he "tried an experiment on a reasonable scale, frankly called it an experiment . . . refrained from announcing that it was the pattern of all future American living...
...Questions. These small glimpses helped to clarify disaster on the grand scale. But they did not explain every thing. The Germans knew they were short of manpower and materials of many crucial kinds, especially airplanes, tanks and fuel. They knew the Soviet offensive was coming. Had they properly sounded the depths of their own weakness, accurately measured the potential of Soviet power...
This country is almost ideal for tank warfare. On that plain, a battle of armor may be shaping up on a scale great enough to determine the course of the war in the west; perhaps it will be the El Alamein of western Europe...