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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more economic experts-"the more that come the greater will be our welcome. . . . Military and economic factors are equally important. If one is neglected the other will suffer. . . ." China's soldiers still needed weapons and supplies. In the Generalissimo's opinion, a properly equipped Chinese Army might shorten the war in Asia by a full year, cut in half the number of troops required to beat Japan...
...smoothly; it was more streamlined and less hampered by red tape than Washington's WPB had ever been. It had brought Chinese industry and government together for the first time. It had taught Chinese industrialists much of Western know-how. In its own small way it would help shorten the stretch drive against Japan, and aid in Chinese post-war recovery...
...sealing off the East Prussian flank to their main drives toward the Reich proper, the Russians already had a victory of the first magnitude. If they could complete the liquidation of the pocket as speedily, the victory would be even greater. It would shorten the Russian line by some 300 miles, release thousands of Red Army troops, might provide first-rate ports for Russian supplies...
...Shorten the War. The armed services, they declared, will need 900,000 new men in the next six months. Allowing for the fortunes of war, production also must be increased, not reduced, in many categories of weapons. War industries will need at least 700,000 workers...
...risk of losing the very men we need in law and medicine, for example,--men of personal force--unless we can shorten the road that leads to a professional career. To do this we must sacrifice with reluctance some of the values inherent in a four-year college education which in normal times is a prerequisite for later work in almost all of our professional schools...