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...President had also brought home forcibly, to a nation which had neglected the political implications of its Army, the new facts of American political life. The Grand Army of the Republic, with only about 400,000 members at peak, influenced every major election for 20 years. The American Legion, with 1,000,000 members, is still a potent force in molding U.S. life...
...ferocious air bombardment of Sicily's airdromes, ports and supply lines. The real pounding had started on June 11, the very day that the outpost island Pantelleria went groggy and collapsed under the rain of bombs. It had gone on in a sonorous crescendo, rising to a peak in the final week when the big Axis air base at Gerbini caught 20 full-scale raids in one day, and targets were so much in demand that American Liberators politely timed their arrival overhead for the exact moment when British Wellingtons were completing their business...
...Summer session enrollment is down to about 7,000-half its 1931 peak...
Twenty billion dollars' worth of planes will be built by U.S. men & women this year. Next year they will build half again as many (in its peak year the automobile industry produced less than four billions' worth of cars...
...some of the 1,479 plants now owned by the Defense Plant Corp. will require more money. Total new capital needs for all purposes for three years after the war, according to the Association, may run to as much as $5 billion a year. This is below the 1929 peak, when some $8.6 billions of new corporate issues were floated; but it is far higher than during 1931-40, when new corporate issues got above $1 billion a year only thrice. (In 1933 they fell to as little as $160 million...