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...Peace. His large hands firm on the podium, his breath turning to vapor in the raw winter wind, Franklin Roosevelt then delivered his shortest inaugural speech (573 words). It would probably never be considered a great speech, but it indicated the President's mood and temper. There was no reference to domestic affairs, nothing but a passing remark on the war. The President's thoughts that day were on the kind of world that will follow the peace...
First raid was one of the shortest the big planes ever undertook: 500 or 600 miles to Rangoon, Burma's No. 1 city, which fell to the Japs in March...
Ships Too. As Japan is pushed into her Inner defense citadel, her supply lines become shorter. Navy Under-Secretary Ralph Bard said last fortnight that Japan may even have a shipping surplus now to transport the leavings of her once-great Empire traffic. But not even the shortest supply lines can withstand the loss of about 600 small and large ships which the Empire suffered in September. Most of Japan's losses occurred in the Philip pines, where Mitscher's flyers sank 205 vessels of all sizes, damaged over 200 more...
...Problems. All of this, from turkeys to bonuses, is simply the Grumman way of getting the greatest production in the shortest time. As a result, neither absentee ism nor lack of manpower, the plagues of other war plants, have been a Grumman problem. Turnover, for all causes, including the draft, has been a small 2.3% so far this year, about half of the aircraft industry's average. Swirbul is fond of saying: "We're cold-blooded about all this, simply go out in the plant and tell the boys: you work a little harder and the company will...
...Pacific and CBI theaters would be the last to be heard from. They had always been shortest on manpower...