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Blitz. Near Elbow Lake, Minn., a bolt of lightning tore through the roof of a schoolhouse, sent a splinter through a globe of the world. The splinter neatly removed Japan, left the rest of the globe intact...
They bellowed across the gorge, swung into column and dived on the Jap. Their 50-caliber slugs tore into the gasoline drums on the trucks, sent them blazing. Their bombs uprooted lorries and tanks, and rolled them down the precipice. The Jap broke, dashed for the bushes, ran into patrols of cheering Chinese who had been left behind at the river crossing...
...British Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, a vital, soft-spoken Scot, visited Malta and saw with his own shrewd eyes what was happening. He promised to send reinforcements and keep on sending them. On Saturday, when the alert sounded, swarms of Spitfires rose to meet the Luftwaffe attack, tore through the screen of Messerschmitts that was protecting Junkers bombers, sent one after another on flaming nose dives into...
...Silent Men. They read about China's "second front." All along the lost coast the silent men, the guerrillas, men who plough dumbly in daytime but are very keen at night, rose up and attacked. They raided Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, Ningpo, Wuhu, Amoy. They tore up the rails of the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway on the central front, tore down 2,000 assorted yards of Japanese telephone and telegraph lines, blew up four bridges. In Canton, down south, they had killed 500 Japanese, had blown up the telephone exchange...
...averaged $230,000,000 a month on preparation for war. Last year the spending doubled, tripled and quadrupled, to $1.5 billion a month. But Pearl Harbor really tore off the brakes. Within two months spending leaped to $2.3 billion, to $3 billion by April. By June it will be $3.5 billion; by September, $5 billion. And still it will reach higher, into a statistical stratosphere...