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George Marshall had decided that MacArthur was right. A fortnight ago, State quietly insisted to interested Governments that the Japanese treaty be drawn immediately. The date the U.S. wanted "was August 19, at San Francisco. MacArthur had already taken the first step toward priming the pump of Japan's economy by setting August 15 for the "opening" of Japan to 400 outside businessmen...
...words to Worthy: "Boss, I ain't gonna come out because if I come out I'll come out dead." Again & again Worthy yelled at him. Then it happened. Peewee dropped with a -38-cal. slug in his leg, which saved his life as the guards' pump guns poured buckshot into the other convicts...
...planned, the Neptune will burn the same fuels as the V2: alcohol and liquid oxygen. It will also carry hydrogen peroxide, which suggests that, like the V2, it will have a steam-driven pump to rush the fuel into the combustion chamber...
...Agreement" era of Franklin Roosevelt and what Marshall called the "Interminable Discussion of Disagreements" at Moscow lay two years of arduous education. Between those two eras was the San Francisco meeting of U.N., the period when Jimmy Byrnes conducted relations with Russia in the jovial tradition of parish-pump politics in South Carolina, when Byrnes sat back and told all who cared to listen that the great thing was to get the other fellow's point of view, when Byrnes saw the U.S. role as that of mediator-until he saw the unreality of that role, quit mediating...
This is where case histories come in, and where the book takes off into new realms. President Conant proposes to take certain cases, such as Robert Boyle's experiments with the air pump or the completely fallacious and stubbornly maintained theory of phlogiston, and illustrate through them the principles of the tactics and strategy of science. As opposed to a broad historical survey, this method offers the advantages of simplicity and totality to the student, and that of greater selectivity to the instructor. The main part of the book consists of illustrations of case histories and the method of drawing...