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...since the days of the Flying Tigers, it had seemed to the embattled Chinese that when a miracle had to be worked, U.S. aviators were the men to work it. At war's end, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek asked the Army Air Forces to work one more. To implement the policy of getting National Government troops to places where they were needed to take Jap surrenders, the A.A.F. took over a massive task: to fly several armies to the east and north...
...peace as we did after World War I. We must be willing to accept our moral responsibilities. We must feed the bodies of Europe's people or we shall never be able to feed their minds. We of the U.S. have lost our moral guts, and, unless we implement our intentions with actions, our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters have died in vain. In another future we will say, "God, help us," and we will forget to say, "For we helped ourselves." We are our brother's keeper, we can afford to be our brother's keeper...
...determined and confident tones, the powerful United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers (C.I.O.) read out the declaration of war. Said the union: the auto industry must raise wages 30% to make up for the loss in take-home pay caused by the return of peace, i.e., the loss of eight hours of overtime when the week was cut from 48 to 40. The industry, said the union, must raise wages without raising auto prices,* which have not yet been fixed...
...Mexico was to have the first free election of its history in July, 1946, it would be up to President Manuel Avila Camacho to enforce it. In his annual message to Congress he had made an equivocal promise to implement the people's will. But the President would have to introduce new electoral procedure, clearly tell the P.R.M. to keep its hands off the ballot boxes, and perhaps even insure a fair count by strict, nonpartisan supervision before his promise became fact...
Fast Finish. As power politics flared in Europe and Asia, the bank's business boomed. The character and purpose of its loans underwent a change. Instead of an implement to foster U.S. world trade, the bank became an instrument of foreign policy. Its loans were made more for political reasons than economic...