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...till 1940 did the turn come. Then Japan occupied northern Indo-China, threatened the U.S. with the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. The Philippines were defended then by some 3,000 U.S. soldiers, a handful of mobile 155-mm. howitzers, some old 755, about 100 first-line planes and some old craft which, said the pilots banteringly, could make 100 miles an hour if they dove straight down. If war broke out, all MacArthur's Philippine Army was to be transferred to the American Commander in Chief of the Philippine Department...
...them how to make tourniquets to stanch hemorrhage. For asphyxia and drowning, students are taught artificial respiration. For poisoning, they are given one good old rule of thumb: dilute the contents of the stomach at once by filling the victim with water. Then stick your finger down his throat till he throws...
Wave after wave of torpedo bombers swooped in on the Repulse. The Wales signaled, asking whether she had been hit. Replied the Repulse: "We have avoided 19 torpedoes till now, thanks to Providence...
...days of profusion were over. No longer would the U.S. be a cornucopia land with store counters piled high with merchandise, its storehouses bulging, its salesmen struggling for a share of the consumer's dollar. Not again, till the Axis was beaten, could the U.S. citizen buy anything & everything for which he had the money or credit...
...somewhat subdued even sugar-shameless Joe O'Mahoney. Nonetheless, he took his shellacking in character. Three days after Pearl Harbor he was still telling the Senate Committee that some freeze-out of Cuba was essential to domestic sugar growers and that it would not affect U.S. sugar supplies till after the war anyway, because the lid is off for the duration...