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...think we have got our money's worth in more than double measure. The total impact of Lend-Lease on our economy has been relatively small. The dividends it has paid have been enormous...
Under the statutory standard (the Natural Gas Act of 1938) of 'just and reasonable' it is the result reached, not the method employed, which is controlling. ... It is not the theory but the impact of the rate order which counts." To this, Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson dissented at length. He argued, in effect, that the "prudent investment" v. "reproduction cost new" utility debate did not even apply to the natural gas case at hand, and, with the concurrence of Justices Frankfurter and Reed, he retorted: "The Court sustains this [FPC] order as reasonable, but what makes...
...Gangrene. To a skilled tactician like Manstein, today's defeat was less grave than its impact on tomorrow. Already, his fleeing men had far outpaced the German armies in the north, exposing their flank. With each day, too, the position of his 20-odd divisions caught in the Dnieper bend became more desperate. A lone railroad of supply and escape was in grave danger...
...real impact of training men in the shortest time will be felt by the speicalized training schools located here. The ASTP and ASTR, which have just completed an end-of-term vacation, will only get Christmas Day off. The NTS (Communications) will also get the day off. At the Naval Supply Corps School the officers will be given the weekend...
...These pillboxes seemed immune to American artillery. . . . Some must have suffered direct hits but apparently the impact of the bursts did nothing but chip off hunks of stone. Then the Americans tried shells with delayed fuses designed to penetrate before exploding. Infantrymen armed with bazookas fired rockets at the pillboxes. But the rocket missiles bounced off ineffectively...