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This did not mean that the U-boat had been licked, even in the area where U.S. convoys were heaviest. Many a ship, unconvoyed, had been sunk in the same period. The U-boats had shied away, but they might return at any time. The convoy system was reaching southward...
Don Nelson himself would be the last to take full credit for all this excitement-by & large, it was still another sign of the U.S.'s grim intention to win the war. Moreover, hundreds of plants (notably in the auto industry) that shied away from labor-management committees per...
Compulsory Volunteering. The U.S. thought back to the whoopla, the tormented emotions, the naked coercion of the Liberty Loan drives of World War I, and it didn't like what it remembered. Houses of non-buyers, then, were painted yellow by vigilantes. Citizens were free to buy voluntarily-provided...
Congress might balk at both requests. The House Ways & Means Committee, working on a new tax bill, shied away from his all-out proposals. Farm bloc Senators complained bitterly, for the record. But Franklin Roosevelt had a big stick, at which his message hinted delicately: this is an election year...
The immediate answer was: northern Burma. Its formidable mountain masses along the India border would slow if not halt the penetrative Japanese. Mongols, invading India seven centuries ago, had shied off from those ranges and chosen to enter by easier routes from the northwest. But north Burma had one immense...