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Peru's first Japanese immigrants were harmless enough. But about the time of World War I, a disturbing pattern began to show. New-style Japanese arrivals were well-educated, well-financed. Directed from Japan, they bought control of cotton plantations, worked their way into department stores and industrial enterprises...
Brown got its first tally in the initial frame by a now too familiar pattern. Netski got on with a base on balls, moved around to third when Don Swegan let Menard's grounder roll through his legs, and then scored when Watts dumped a hit out to left...
Central to the Seven Year Plan is the re-shuffling of the four-three pattern of legal education normally followed. Three years in College, then three in Law School, and a concluding year in College form the Plan's solution to over-specialized pre-Law training...
What is left of her heavy industry (probably at least 50%) needs raw materials from the lost mainland. If the German control pattern is followed, much of Japan's machinery may go to aid in the reconstruction of China and other victimized countries. Some that cannot be removed will be destroyed because it formed the base of Japan's war potential. The remainder will be needed to rebuild the shattered railroad system and the cities...
Soon 1,000 B-29s carrying as much bomb weight as 3,000 B-17s, would be hitting Japan day after day, and the increased power of their atomic missiles would be astronomically out of proportion to the increase in weight. An observer used to the European pattern of heavy bombardment arrived on Guam and was moved to say: "It is an appalling power we Americans possess...