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Observers had reported that the air-cooled aircraft engines in U.S. tanks were less vulnerable than the liquid-cooled European engines. And they needed no stops for the water that in Libya is as precious as gold...
...military assets which German military writers list, the most precious is something they call siegerringendes Blutkapital ("Capital of victory-achieving blood"). If an army spends too much (say 40%) of this precious capital too quickly, it is incapable of further offensive action until it has passed many months filling out its ranks with new blood...
...anchor. In the distance he can see the radio towers of the Cavite naval base and ahead, if the day is clear, the looming bulk of Corregidor, the Gibraltar that guards Manila. Close by he can see the merchantmen at Manila's big pier 7 busily unloading the precious stuff that he needs to keep his fleet in fighting trim...
...chemical engineers. Copper is priced at 12? a lb., silver around $10 a Ib. depending on when it was bought; but defense plants are well guarded and their wires full of deadly high voltages 24 hours a day. After the war the silver can be re claimed, restored to precious uselessness...
There remained little question but that Russia would last out the winter, would fight hard next year, would go on resisting somehow from some mountain Chungking. The laggard democracies would have more precious time to gird for the job of beating Hitler. It would be an awesome job, but now it could be done...