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...detail had been spared to make their trip a success, no chance overlooked to display Britain's manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets...
...most readers the single actions which measured off the tremendous campaign are household words-Kula Gulf, Saipan, Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...
...other big U.S. cities. But Los Angeles was not considering it coldly. Last week virtually every landlord was certain his constitutional rights were being ground under the heel of a psychopathic bureaucracy, and countless tenants were convinced that they were soon to be 1) homeless, 2) victims of the vastest, most blackhearted swindle in the regrettable history of man. So the atmosphere was not unlike that around the lifeboats two minutes before the Titanic went down...
...happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about."-James A. McN. Whistler...
...best news in Washington last week had to do with feeding the world. Many a U.S. citizen has feared that his Government would 1) set up the vastest and most hopeless charity scheme in history, 2) earn the usual unhappy reward of the starry-eyed benefactor, 3) make the U.S. people so tired of serving as international milch cow that a new wave of isolationism would sweep the country. Last week brought signs that such fears can be forgotten...