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...twin pillars of a sound colonial policy, Colonel Stanley observed weightily, are "educational advance and economic development." To strengthen the first pillar, he proposed to set up 30 annual two-year scholarships for promising colonials. To stiffen the second, he recommended fostering "secondary industries [for] processing native products [and] simple manufacturing, not requiring the import of large quantities of raw materials ... to make the colonies self-supporting." However, Britain would still draw semi-finished goods from the colonies for her specialized industries...
...areas near the zones of occupation. Thus the perimeter of the flow of trade is from national China towards occupied China. By importing gold bullion from the U.S.'s oversupply and buying in occupied areas with gold, the flow can be reversed. The consumers goods . . . necessary to stiffen the Chinese internally will flow into the free interior. When sold for China dollars they will help reduce excess purchasing power. This is possible because of Jap puppet administrators' corruption. If goods are not movable, they can be destroyed where bought...
...days.* He embarrassed the British, who have branded Gandhi as a traitor at worst, a troublesome mystic at best. For his own Congress party followers (including at least 60,000 who have been arrested since last August) the fast was an effort to bolster sagging morale and stiffen the fraying fibers of resistance to British rule...
...lack of only 5,000 men. Hitch in this logical suggestion is that there is still no way to make sure that the disemployed gold miners would stop off at Butte instead of drifting on to West Coast shipyards. Nor is there as yet any national service law to stiffen the spine of Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission to the point of freezing labor in strategic jobs. And-Washington being Washington-there is little or no hope of getting such unpopular legislation on the books until after the elections are over...
...wing surfaces of planes is that it can be used in thicker sheets than steel and aluminum. This increased thickness has two effects: 1) it lessens surface vibrations which in time will weaken the wing; 2) it simplifies the maze of ribs and spars now built into wings to stiffen them...