Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Menzies government wooed both domestic and foreign capital with tax concessions. Overseas capital was lured with such attractions as no capital gains tax, guarantees of repatriation of profits and assurances that the capital itself could be repatriated. Some critics argued that the breaks were too big. Menzies' answer...
In the Arena. It is an exciting, if exacting spectator sport to see a spirited logician in broken-field running (using the split-hair formation) tear through a platoon of Platonists or a squad of schoolmen. Russell puts living and dead philosophers in the same intellectual arena. Turning to 6th...
The valor, suffering and death of Commander Davis on Jan. 6, 1945, three days before the troop landings at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, were to be duplicated by scores of other Navy officers and men in the seven-month liberation of the Philippines. With the backbone of its naval power snapped...
During the Luzon operations, almost 2,000 U.S. and Australian Navymen were killed by the kamikaze pilots. During the Philippines campaign, one in four kamikazes damaged a target; one in 33 sank a ship.
Ashore, military operations moved on schedule, though not with the deceptive ease of Historian Morison's brisk and necessarily brief account. In Manila alone, 20.000 Japanese fought house-to-house to the death. Except for Leyte. the Japanese never made any concerted attacks on U.S. beachheads, and this undoubtedly...