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...Chinese Government should get $600 a month plus a bonus of $500 per enemy plane downed. Pilots fighting for the U.S. get paid in the ungenerous Army & Navy scales. Perhaps more important: all A.V.G.'s battle-won know-how on the technique of destroying Japs was far too precious to keep concentrated in only three squadrons-it needed to be spread through the U.S. air forces...
...Regulation's full breadth was definable only by listing the things it did not control: farm products, books, magazines, movies, etc., collectors' items and precious articles, securities, raw naval stores, restaurant meals, insurance, advertising, utilities and a few other services. The selling price of everything else was frozen at the highest levels for each individual supplier during the month of March. Penalties for noncompliance: up to a year in jail and $5,000 (plus liability for triple damages), suspension for a year of the license to do business that OPA's Regulation automatically grants to all sellers...
...conquers Burma must win the rivers and their valleys. With them go Burma's chief port, Rangoon; the oil of Yanangyaung, on the Irrawaddy ; the ruby and silver mines; 85% of all the precious tungsten in the British Empire; Burma's rubber plantations; the inland cities-Pegu, Prome, Mandalay-where Burmese kings once ruled their separate realms, and the British were never quite at home...
Wavell, Brereton, a few other officers flew by night to Ceylon, then on to India. Brereton had with him a pistol, a few faded tropical uniforms which he had picked up from Australians in Java, and a blanket roll. He called the blanket roll "Baby," and it was precious: inside was $250,000 in U.S. currency. The money was to have paid and supplied U.S. troops who never arrived in Java. Like many another such bankroll, it had been handed out by Chief of Staff George C. Marshall in Washington, on the premise that you never could tell...
Nightmare. The story of the fire sounded like a carefully told bad dream. Hoses spewed weakly and went dry. Fire extinguishers failed. Someone tripped over and spilled a precious bucket of water. The man at the central fire-control station telephoned the bridge to sound a general alarm-the Coast Guardsman on duty there could not find the right switch (there were two switches but both had been disconnected). Donning gas masks, men tried to get into the smoke-filled salon, discovered that the gas masks did not work, retreated, gasping for air. An officer found some hose, frantically tried...