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...Senate Committee grew inquisitive last week about another reckless Army wartime venture that (like Canol) blew up. The Committee's curiosity was aroused by the 905-mi. highway from Mexico to Panama, which Army engineers had figured would cost a mere $14,714,000. Undertaken with the approval of the General Staff and the Secretary of War, the road cost $42,715,591 before it was abandoned...
German physicists had already figured out the sun gun's necessary size (3½ sq. mi.) and composition (metallic sodium). Presumably they also had ideas about how the space station might be kept under control (it would have to revolve with the earth like a satellite) and be supplied with air for its inhabitants. Unperturbed by Allied officers' skeptical crossexamination, the Germans coolly announced they were certain the thing could be done within 50 or 100 years...
...whole thing took about 15 minutes. In that time Craft fired four clips from his Mi, hurled 48 grenades and the satchel charge. He paused only once-to pick up a Japanese officer's sword because he knew "those guys of the 96th would have had the field stripped clear of souvenirs by the time I got back...
...Marianas Superforts, gave more details: "Yokohama is gone, Nagoya is no longer a worthwhile target. Kobe is gone. Soon we'll be striking smaller cities in the 100,000-population class." Osaka had had it, and only ten square miles of Tokyo's 60-sq. mi. industrial area was left intact-one year after the first B-29 raid on Japan. Unlike Germany, Japan lacks the time, technicians and industrial savvy to rebuild ruined factories quickly. Said General LeMay: "It is just a matter of time before we get everything of value in Japan...
...enemy on Okinawa had been com pressed into a minute fraction of the island's area - no more than 20 of its 485 sq. mi.- and U.S. ground forces called for fire support from the fleet's guns to soften another stubborn line, the last on which the enemy could stand. Along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, 3,000 yds. long, 600 ft. high, including a 300-ft. cliff, perhaps half of the 15,000 or so surviving Japanese were dug in. They had scores of fortified caves, from each of which they would have to be burned...