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Meanwhile he split the Administration forces, holding his. fire from Fuel Boss Harold Ickes, but attacking the War Labor Board head...
...have given well-earned recognition . . . but there is an even larger group of amateurs who are also indispensable. . . . This group, the Amateur Radio Operators, has to a large degree made possible the split-second timing and coordination of the Allied armies. Radio Amateurs (some 50,000 in the U.S.) have . . . become the key men in the communication networks on the battlefronts...
Surrounding the 1,800 civilians in the undergraduate college and the 11 graduate schools are 4,200 Navy officers, officer-candidates, and student officers, and 2,600 Army officers, officer-candidates, and enlisted personnel. The Navy men are split between the Naval Training Schools Communication, Radar, Supply Corps, and V-12, including the NROTC. The Army men live and study in the Chaplains School, ASTP unit, Overseas Administration School, and other miscellaneous outfits...
...this, they have a machine that flicks short phrases into sight for the subject to read. For example, a sentence like "Take the box" can easily be comprehended without being read letter for letter. But a smaller number of letters, "Xsn Psyfg," flashed before the subject in the same split-second would not register on his mind since it arouses no associational image...
Even more precisely, it can be said that Germany hopes: 1) to split the United Nations and to come to separate peace either with Britain-U.S. in the west or with Soviet Russia in the east; 2) to get a conditional peace that will leave Germany strong, independent, defensible-a world power to be treated with deference by the other world powers...