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...that will be needed to increase air freight tenfold, or a thousandfold, when peace comes, are more and bigger planes and an understanding among nations. Aviation can guarantee the planes. Some of them, like Consolidated's new 400-passenger transport, are on the drafting boards. The tremendous rest is up to the world's statesmen...
...what of hatred? What of the years of trying to organize this mass of resentment? Was this not Serbia a thousandfold...
This good-neighborly gesture of Franklin Roosevelt was not so princely as economical. Its direct cost to the U. S. was about $3.880, but the gesture was sure to be repaid-in good will and good business-a thousandfold...
This methodical craftiness was nothing new : it was the old story of Prussian military precision. The new element which was injected into last week's raids was the fury of Adolf Hitler. There was no more "armed reconnaissance" last week - the raids were to destroy, kill, retaliate a thousandfold. Night raids were no longer designed for insomnia - they were designed for the sleep of death...
...comes in meaning thousandfold...