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...would have to fight an offensive war in the Pacific are Japan's waters - 4,500 to 6,000 perilous miles beyond Pearl Harbor. That is too far for the main fleet to go, fight, return: its practicable battle radius (with due allowance for cruising and combat maneuvers) is 2,500 to 2,700 miles from its base.* Such is the elemental, geographic rule which Navy minds have to ponder. By such rules, John Paul Jones in his inferior Bon Homme Richard could not possibly have whipped England's Serapis...
Size. To be added to the Navy's 309 warships, 1,813 planes, were 143 new combat vessels (including four 45,000-ton battleships, six 35,000-tonners), 4,180 planes, 35 old destroyers and 36 old submarines, which last week were marked for recommissioning and assignment to the feeble Atlantic Squadron. Booked for the Regular Army was a standing force of 400,000 (up from 280,000, perhaps rising later to 750,000); 5,566 more planes, doubling the Air Corps; munitions for an initial wartime force...
...finance new airplane and munitions plants, the House Appropriations Committee reported that the U. S. in the next two years must spend on this one phase of Rearmament $1,000,000,000. A Senate committee figured that 22 of the Navy's 143 new combat vessels will cost at least $372,750,000. Buried in one of the naval bills which Congress passed last week was authority (but not money) for the Navy to fortify Guam, in Japan's Pacific backyard. Eventual cost: anywhere from $80,000,000 to $200,000,000, depending upon how safe the Navy...
...combat totalitarianism Brazil has no democratic tradition worth the name. It is split by sectional, racial and cultural differences. About 30% of its population is white, about 5% pure Indian, 12% pure black; the rest are mixed. There is a small upper class, a smaller middle class, a large, illiterate, exploited lower class. This class has no franchise, no influence, no right of assembly, of organization, of free speech. Dictator Vargas' Estado Novo (New State), has talked loudly of bettering their lot, is still talking...
...Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings. was prepared to convert plant space of World War I vintage to other munitions production. Aged (73) Tank-Designer Walter Christie popped up in Washington with plans for a tank to be hooked to an airplane and landed ready for combat. Aircraftsman Glenn Martin in Baltimore declared that all the established industry needs to get into real mass production is mass orders. Two men in charge of the dynamo whence all this humming proceeded were a white-haired young man named Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and a Danish, cat-stepping giant...