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...driven into the sea. Our losses may be heavy. No one can take this possibility lightly . . . But what Senator Taft and Mr. Hoover seem to insist upon is that we should not use land troops on the Continent unless we are certain to win ... If we only try to resist the Communists when it is a sure thing that we will win, the Communists will conquer the world...
...trouble with DDT is that insects get used to it, develop hardy strains that resist the poison. Another trouble is that DDT kills both injurious insects and their natural enemies. In some cases, long-continued spraying with DDT has caused insect plagues by killing "good" bugs (e.g., insects' parasites) and leaving the bad bugs alive...
From Frankfurt: When the U.S. first took the field against North Korean aggression, U.S. prestige was saved from annihilation. Had the U.S. ignored this aggression, Germans would have lost all confidence in its determination to resist Soviet aggression. But U.S. prestige remained in a precarious state of health until the Inchon landing...
...Resist America" propaganda and mobilization mounted in clamor and fury. In Nanking a U.S. missionary teacher was publicly humiliated. In Shanghai, U.S. movies were branded as "spiritual poison." In Canton a doctors' rally pledged a boycott of U.S. medicines. Everywhere students were recruited for military service. Peking's Current Affairs Journal instructed the faithful: "Hate the U.S., for she is the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. Despise the U.S., for she is a rotten imperialist nation . . . Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that...
...reason for the jet's high survival value is its structural strength. It must be built strong to resist the stresses of its high speed; the same strength holds it together when it is hit by enemy flak...