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Last week Mme. Wei tossed a new idea into the ring of Far Eastern planning: a couple of good sound lickings would melt Japanese "nerves of steel," pinprick Japan's bubble empire. The annihilation of Japan would be unnecessary. The power of the military party broken, a Japanese republic could educate the people away from long-established habits of Emperor worship and blind obedience to war lords...
...using up its fuel supply at an increasing rate, will gradually get hotter during the next ten billion years. By that time the earth's surface temperature will be lifted to about 750° Fahrenheit, hot enough to boil away the oceans, char organic matter, and melt tin, lead and zinc. Then the last of the sun's hydrogen atoms will be converted into helium. With no more fuel on hand, the sun will cool and fade...
...themselves and get around. They began to like it. "We're all taking flit guns of that stuff back to duty," said a discharged sailor as he packed his bag last week. Dr. Pendleton now has invented a small heater, powered by a 25-watt light bulb, to melt the wax and make it available quickly in ships' turrets...
They met the Jap near Kokoda (where there is a usable airdrome) and stopped him. The enemy seemed confused at the kind of opposition he got. He came in force upon one small Allied patrol, saw it melt into the jungle before he could fire a shot. The little infantrymen fanned out and sprayed the underbrush with tommy-gun fire. They shouted: "You come, you come." But the patrol did not come. It pulled out without losing...
...Standard of Living, it is important to note, is the 1942 standard in reverse. Then there was too little money for too many goods; now the specter of inflation stalks the land because there is (or will be, when the present enormous inventories melt away) too much money to buy too few goods. Ironically, the manner in which that money will be distributed magnifies the problem. For the plain fact is that (outside of military casualties) there are only two major kinds of "suffering" in prospect for consumers: 1) The newly well-paid will not be able to use their...