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...should the postwar Navy be? Last week (in testimony published by the House Appropriations Committee) the Navy gave its own answer: a whopper. The Navy said it hoped to have a peacetime fleet three times as big as the pre-Pearl Harbor Navy...
...budget sent by the President to Congress was $13 billion below last year's whopper, but it was no time for the economy-minded to cheer. The budget was still an astronomical $86,767,000,000, and it was less than last year's because the U.S. had finished building most of its war plants. An Allied victory in Europe might cut the budget by billions; a renewed show of German strength might raise it by billions. But Franklin Roosevelt refused to be prophetic...
...outfit and able sub-commanders. The XIX Tactical Air Command, headed by quiet, efficient Brigadier General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland (rhymes with island) was Vandenberg's link to the battlefields of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. Vandenberg's bomber outfit was a whopper, headed by Brigadier General Samuel E. Anderson, whose Marauders and Havocs had played a big part in pushing the German airfields back from the Atlantic in advance of Dday...
Then the bubble burst. Shrewd Cargill wriggled out of its short position by buying Canadian rye, shipping it into the U.S. General Foods began to unload some of its rye. The corn crop turned out to be a whopper, and distillers decided that they might get some of this for whiskey. Furthermore, use of rye in industrial alcohol is no longer compulsory. During November, rye prices slipped...
...Roosevelt feigned some reluctance in saying it, but there seemed to be something a bit "foreign" creeping into the campaign this year-a "propaganda technique invented by the dictators abroad." It was, he feared, a technique out of Mein Kampf; never tell a small lie, make it a fantastic whopper and keep repeating...