Word: successful
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Despair in Defeat. Consequence of this kind of training is that privates rely inordinately on their officers. They are taught to believe in success, and they do. Consequently, when they encounter failure they break down. Diaries taken from Jap soldiers in New Guinea have had their share of despair: "Where is the Imperial Fleet? . . . The end is approaching. . . . We cannot endure another day of this sickness and shelling. We see nothing but American planes...
...revival is bustling, 40-year-old Bruno Pagliai, onetime California banker whose past enterprises include two famed Hollywood playgrounds: the Agua Caliente race track (now closed for the duration) and the La Playa Hotel at Ensenada. Undaunted by the fact that several other U.S. citizens had tried, with little success, to revive racing in Mexico, Pagliai got the ear of Wall Street Financier Ben ("Sell 'em-Short") Smith, who had developed an interest in horse racing by taking planeloads of friends to Kentucky Derbies. Assured of Smith's enthusiasm, Pagliai then convinced polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho...
...plant backs up to Baird's. Elderly Wayne Baird's plant used to turn out small metal parts for oil-field machinery; elderly Anthony Engler's made toys. But in October 1940 they landed a joint $200,000 shell-fin contract which they executed with such success that last month they snagged a new one. This time it was for $1,000,000-about 40 times their combined annual volume in peacetime...
However, he was careful to point out that the meaning of our present capability in turning out goods, which is such an important aid to the success of the Allied war effort, may be read only in the future effects of present gains after...
They know that Germany failed in the first great application of independent air power (against Britain). But they argue that Germany came with too little and that its little was stopped, perilously close to success, by independent air power from British soil, i.e., the R.A.F. Fighter Command. Yet by events and the utterances of Army ground generals they see only waning hope that an all-out air theater will be established in this...