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...last 30 days, use of lignin-itself a plastic as well as a plastic "extender"-has increased fourfold in making airplane pattern plates...
...everybody's war. Army cooks strove to put out the best of food, robbed each other blind. In lulls, barbers calmly cut soldiers' hair. In one comprehensive job, a barber cut the hair of seven Marines by letters so that when they stood together the pattern of the cuts spelled VICTORY...
...general pattern of attack had emerged by last week. As ever, the Axis radio searched for the chinks between friendly peoples, insinuated between them its calculated lies, its bacilli of rumor. The British were told that U.S. admirals secretly rejoiced at the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse. The Americans were told to resent the British command of Far Eastern land forces. Disappointment was encouraged among the Chinese...
...approved U.S. rule, did not want Philippine independence, could be counted on to resist the Japanese as fiercely as they once resisted the Spaniards and the Americans. Silence was to be expected from the Ilocanos, the ingenious "Yankees of the Philippines" in whose villages life followed its immemorial pattern regardless of conquest. Silence was expected from the Chinese who tend the stores in the villages, do much of the islands' trading, lend money to extravagant Filipinos, mind their own business and have bowed temporarily to invaders before...
...going to be any easier bringing her back into the fold this time than it was in 1919 an if we start off on the principle that we just cast her loose we'll end up where we are now again. To fit Germany into the pattern of the future requires both a complete internal reeducation and an external policy of conciliation. We can't set up a ring of tariff barriers around her and expect to keep her at peace for instance...