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...Kaiser's Pour le Mérite and Order of the Iron Cross First Class; Hitler's Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Cross; Bulgaria's Order of St. Alexander; Yugoslavia's Order of the White Eagle; Luxembourg's Order of Adolphus of Nassau; Greece's Royal Order of the Redeemer; Italy's Order of St. Maurice & St. Lazare; Hungary's Cross of Merit; Finland's Order of the White Rose; Sweden's Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword; Denmark's Order of the Dannebrog...
...central control needed to drive manpower out of services into war production, to bring the civilian economy back into control is, of course, fiscal policy. Yet fiscal policy is precisely the Achilles heel of the whole war effort. In fiscal 1943 the U.S. Treasury will probably pour out $80 billions in expenditures, take in only $21 billions. In the next fiscal year it will be as bad. Yet even these figures are deceptive. For the taxes which the Congress imposed upon the country have little to do with the curbing of civilian demand. In large part they consisted...
...There are lots of pet theories, but none of them quite covers "Candle In The Wind," "Eve Of St. Mark," "Letters To Lucerne," "Plan M"; none of them can explain away "Heart Of The City," "The Moon Is Down," "The Morning Star," "The Wookey,"--et cetera, ad infinitum, strictement pour les oiseaux...
...they must be assaulted, at whatever cost, and destroyed one by one. The artillery is helping, including American 105-mm. howitzers which were flown into action. But many of the Japanese foxholes are too deep and too cleverly contrived to be wiped out even by the terrific barrages which pour in tons of high explosives each day & night...
...flood of thousands of calls to the University telephone exchange, and as facilities there proved inadequate the air raid-report center on Lehman Hall was opened for the emergency traffic. Twenty men sent by the Naval School helped man the center's phones, and as calls began to pour into extension 123 at the Navy's order, the switchboard, manned by a battery of operators, answered frantic calls until late at night...