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...last-ditch shock attack. Short of artillery, short even of ammunition for the various calibers of Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored cars, they walled trucks with double sheets of boiler plate. The first layer took the zing out of armor-piercing bullets, the second stopped them. The improvised cars with their mounted machine guns roared over the narrow, metalized Java highways, barking at advance parties of Jap bicyclists and rushing defenders...
...raced from plant to plant in cars that moved at 70 m.p.h. They grabbed lunch on the way from the tank arsenal to the River Rouge plant. They saw, on the outskirts of Detroit, where a cornfield flourished a few months ago, a tank factory where huge sections of armor plate and steel castings moved down a production line five miles long...
Such tools cannot be used for tanks, for example, because tanks aren't the same shape and are made of tough armor. So the great bulk of Detroit's tools cannot be converted. Some of the great body presses set on deep foundations and too heavy to move are being walled up. Other tools-spot-welding machines, great dies and fixtures-single-purpose tools built for one operation to produce one particular product and good for nothing else-are being hauled out to the parking lots, covered with grease and heavy paper, abandoned for the duration...
This crusade business is slowly geting under my skin. Every time we Americans do anything, we feel that we must pose as knights in white armor bringing light to the darkness of the rest of the world. In the last war Wilson was the guardian angel of the great myth. In this war Henry Luce has cast Roosevelt as the champion of the liberal democratic ideal leading the world into an American Century. The strange thing about this simon pure attitude towards America, is that it is embraced by isolationists as freely as interventionists. Ever since Henry James we have...
...precocious reputation as the finest society portrait painter in rich, 17th-Century republican Amsterdam. A proud, flamboyant personality, he charged Amsterdam's solid burghers, soldiers and surgeons high prices for his solemn, cloudy canvases, married a woman of wealth, spent money like a drunken lord on paintings, prints, armor, tapestries and pearls. Some of the ruff-necked portraits Painter Rembrandt did during this early period were as prim and vapid as their complacent cheese-eating subjects. But on the side he prowled Amsterdam's ancient docksides and ghetto streets, drawing, painting and incessantly limning the gnarled faces...