Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ocean Navy-U. S. steelmen (especially little steelmen) began to grumble again. How could they be expected to expand production for Defense, they asked, if the "damn-japs" were to be allowed to diddle the scrap price, perhaps clean out the country's junk yards in the process? They pointed out that the West Coast, where scrap consumption is certain to grow with expansion for Defense, has encountered scrap shortages in previous production peaks. They cited a recent statement of the Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel (which is all for free trade in scrap) to show steel...
Perhaps they were right. For by last week it was crystal clear that France's collapse had been preceded by a long, slow disintegration of the democratic and republican ideal, and in the process of disintegration was many a lesson for thoughtful U. S. citizens to ponder...
...short to long. The same official of the Soviet Political Police who had starved and questioned them then stood over the Radziwills to make sure they ate every morsel on their now heaping plates. They were kept from the usual prison exercise period, suffered gastritis from the intensive stuffing process. But the Radziwills were fattened up to something like normal in three weeks...
...Stalin and Molotov doubtless counted on a longer war, possibly on the socialization of Europe in the process. When France collapsed, it was time to readjust the balance of power, if possible; at least to readjust Russia's defenses. So Russia marched...
Having nominally captured 465,000 square miles populated by 115,000,000 Chinese, the Japanese confidently (and therefore halfheartedly) offered peace. The Chinese refused. The Japanese set about trying to consolidate the occupied areas, riddled by guerrillas. During this process a large force allowed itself to be hemmed in by masses of Chinese at Taierchwang and suffered the worst Japanese defeat in modern history (TIME, April...