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...most plants, slogan contests are being run as an integral part of the committees' work. Samples: "Speed the Wheels to Beat the Heels" (from an American Steel & Wire sloganeer); "Speed 'Em for Freedom" (Curtiss-Wright); "Jappy, We'll Knock You Slap Happy" (Cincinnati's Boye & Emmes Machine Tool...
...Knock Out the Runway. Since Jimmy Doolittle's deed of April 18, the Japanese have been quite naturally obsessed by fear that the United Nations will use China as a base for large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...
...looked as if Hitler intended to throw his full weight at Russia, but his first moves were tentative and met a rough Russian answer. It looked as if the Japanese Army were going to try to knock China out of the war, and yet the campaign seemed, at least to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's plane-blind forces, unclear and not yet full-blown. It looked as if the Japanese Navy were re-forming for another reach at Australia's screen, but the concentration was not yet completed. There was renewed activity in the Mediterranean...
...struck deep enough into China from the south, if he could pile up enough reverses to erase Chiang, either in battle or by treachery, then ruin would be close. The Jap would have nine-tenths of his New Order in Greater East Asia. It might then take years to knock...
...plane has also vastly increased the risk of offensive warfare, even with an overwhelming surface force. A few squadrons of land-based bombers with surprise and skill on their side can knock the stuffing out of a task force in a couple of hours' attack, as the Jap did when he swarmed down on the mighty Prince of Wales and Repulse...