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...Joint Chiefs, dividing the Pacific command by function rather than by area, had said in April that they might designate either MacArthur or Nimitz as commander of any future offensive. But MacArthur's statement provoked Nimitz to the mildest of replies. For the record, he pointed out, "Control of all naval and naval air forces, naval bases and naval installations" in the Ryukyus remains in his command; the strategic bombers remain under Spaatz's command. Spelling it out, Nimitz emphasized that naval commanders in the Ryukyus report direct to him-not through MacArthur...
Politically, the Potsdam planners put their trust in 1) that vague and aleatory something called "re-education," 2) a determination to permit no central German government to function for a long, long time...
...Three Bs. But Ulithi's chief function was to supply the fleet with "bomb, beans and bullets." In the anchorage floated the "crockery fleet" - concrete barges storing the million items needed by a thousand ships. Fast supply ships and slow tankers shuttled from the U.S. to Ulithi, bringing oil, meat, screws, tires and flour to these warehouse barges which in turn unloaded their supplies into carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers and up to 700 amphibious vessels...
This increase in the population of high schools was marked by a "gradual change . . . in the whole character of the high school and its function toward American society." Where the early high school trained men who would go on to college, trained them in the staples of composition and mathematics, Virgil and Xenophon, the modern high school's function and scope are broader...
...this report, which has to do, not with the thousand influences dividing man from man, but with the necessary bonds and common ground between them. Democracy, however much by ensuring the right to differ it may foster difference--particularly in a technological age which further encourages division of function and hence difference of outlook--yet depends equally on the binding ties of common standards...