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...More than half of the 500 believed that the Japanese Navy is the most powerful in the world. One hundred believed that the U. S. Navy has been sunk...
...little village of Yalta nestles at the foot of an amphitheatre which slopes backwards and upwards to the wall of hills, and looks as if it might have sunk quietly down to its present position from a higher elevation. This depression is covered with the great parks and gardens of noblemen, and . . . the bright colors of their palaces bud out here & there like flowers. It is a beautiful spot...
...great unknown ingredient in this witches' brew is the German people. Undoubtedly the Allies have underestimated their toughness, resourcefulness and will-to-win. Yet as the Germans begin to see absolutely no hope of winning, more & more of them, not so sunk in guilt as the Nazi malefactors, will want to cry quits. There will be only one way to keep them in line: terror...
...tools Britain bought had originally cost the U.S. $166,000,000, but the deal was not quite the bargain for Britain that it seemed. To keep the bookkeeping record straight, FEA Boss Leo Crowley had thriftily included in his bill the cost of tools sunk in transit or later bombed out in Britain...
...week's end, the U.S. fliers' score for two days was fat: in Jap planes destroyed, 220 damaged; 25 ships sunk, 58 damaged. By this time McCain had hauled off to the south. He was off Luzon, in the Philippines, looking for trouble. But Jap air power on Luzon was already thinned out; on the first day, only 41 enemy planes could be found and wrecked...