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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles east of Jap-held Yap, 400 miles southwest of Guam-and 4,000 miles nearer the war than Pearl Harbor. Ulithi was captured without opposition last September by the 321st Regiment of the 81st Infantry Division.* The Japs had just left. Ulithi's great, 112-sq.-mi. anchorage could hold nearly 1,000 ships of the U.S. Fleet-something neither Guam nor Pearl Harbor...
...year-old Merchandise Mart (4,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space) cost Marshall Field $30 million to build, is still valued on its books at more than $21 million. Once the whitest of elephants, it is now 100% occupied, brings in an impressive $4,000,000 annually in rents...
German physicists had already figured out the sun gun's necessary size (3½ sq. mi.) and composition (metallic sodium). Presumably they also had ideas about how the space station might be kept under control (it would have to revolve with the earth like a satellite) and be supplied with air for its inhabitants. Unperturbed by Allied officers' skeptical crossexamination, the Germans coolly announced they were certain the thing could be done within 50 or 100 years...
...commander of the Marianas Superforts, gave more details: "Yokohama is gone, Nagoya is no longer a worthwhile target. Kobe is gone. Soon we'll be striking smaller cities in the 100,000-population class." Osaka had had it, and only ten square miles of Tokyo's 60-sq. mi. industrial area was left intact-one year after the first B-29 raid on Japan. Unlike Germany, Japan lacks the time, technicians and industrial savvy to rebuild ruined factories quickly. Said General LeMay: "It is just a matter of time before we get everything of value in Japan...
...most gaped-at murals in the U.S. glistened last week with a fresh, 750-gallon coat of paint. The concourse ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Station, a 40,000-sq.-ft. turquoise and gold-leaf image of the heavens (a romping Pegasus, twinkling Mazda stars, eight signs of the Zodiac) gleamed as bright as new. The big arched picture-ceiling, put up in 1913, had never before been repainted. It was a ticklish job. The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off-and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently...