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...gimmick does everything else, making corrections for wind pressure, the pull of gravity on the bullets and the speed of the enemy plane. Scrambling this information in its cogwheel brain, it tosses in the speed of the projectiles and automatically points the guns not to where the foe is, but to where he will be when the bullets get there. But the human element still remains: for results, the gimmick must have correct data, steady sighting...
During the Civil War a popular general, George B. McClellan, ran for President without having first subdued the foe, and was defeated...
...that knockout is delivered from the air this year, its chief author will be Air Chief Marshal Harris. Except perhaps in the last rounds, the chief instrument will be his Bomber Command. His friend and poker foe, General Eaker, is just as much of an airman, and he had a great deal to do with presenting and championing the airmen's proposition. But, in comparison with the R.A.F., the Eighth Air Force and its Bomber Command are still small and young. American bombers first attacked Occupied France last August, first flew into Germany last Jan. 27. The American force...
...Just as you and I, Colonel McCormick . . . has both friends and enemies. His enemies brand him as a British-hating arch-isolationist, a publicity-thirsty megalomaniac. To his friends, however, Colonel McCormick is a man of independent will, a man of action, a fearless foe, ready to express himself regardless of consequences. I also assume there must be a group of neutrals who has no definite likes or dislikes about the colonel...
Result of this barrage is that most U.S. readers think what A.P. wants them to think: that the Government is striving to control newspapers; that A.P. is a valiant knight tilting against the foe...