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Major de Seversky's vision gives a better idea of the future than the tame record (considered astonishing) of Hitler's triumphs in the air. It is no longer possible to print the specific facts about the U.S. air force which is building. But, without figures, the fact is no less true that the bomber of 1943 will show tremendous increases in speed, bomb-load and range over the fanciest models of 1941. And it is equally a fact, as De Seversky asserted, that, of all the world's nations, the U.S. is best equipped to create...
...drive us to the Salt House like silly sheep and tame...
...have to learn to produce as Germany did under Hitler, and figure out a way to keep individual freedom. The U.S. would have to maintain a huge armament program. (But after all, the General told himself: "Hitler ... is mortal and he'll die some day. The way to tame a rebel is to make him rich and then he becomes conservative and settles down.") The net, as the General cast it up: retention of "most of the good things of our way of life and progress as a great nation...
...Cain's three fascinations are the Laocoönic stranglings of sex, money (or its lack) and snobbery. His heroine, Mildred Pierce, finds herself entangled in all three. Divorced after eleven tame years of marriage, she finally manages to support her children through a pie-bakery. But little else in her life is quite as easy as pie. The first of her lovers, her husband's ex-partner, is only too ready to betray her when it means money to him. Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with...
...wrote Historian J. F. C. Hecker of the great dancing mania of the 14th and 15th Centuries. By medieval standards, the square-dancing mania that possessed many a U.S. youth last week was pretty tame, but Schoolmaster Lloyd Shaw, its originator, observed hopefully that children, too, were beginning to cut loose...