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Big picture books.(books about World War II)(Brief article)(Book review)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 696 words; ...packed with fascinating information and photos. The Battle of the Bulge The Photographic History of an American Triumph By John R. Bruning. 300 pp. Zenith, 2009. $50. A striking cornucopia that combines more than 500 photos, many previously unseen...

The speed-up king: in 1940, a Danish machinist helped jump-start America's transformation from carmaker to weapons giant.(president of General Motors, William S. Knudsen)(Essay)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 4244 words; ...Franklin D. Roosevelt was a Harvard-educated Hudson River valley patrician whose New Deal programs had been at war with big business since his election to office in 1932. William S. Knudsen was a hulking, rough-hewn immigrant mechanic who had...

Made in America: long before the United States officially entered World War II, it was the world's biggest exporter of fighter aircraft.(Report)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 4968 words; ...armor protection--when compared to their enemy counterparts. Consider, for instance, what U.S. Marine Captain Phillip R. White had to say following a mission during the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942, when 12 of 19 Brewster F2A-3 Buffalos...

2009 fellowship recipients: singing cowboy hopes Harvard leads to the world stage of Foreign Service.
Phi Kappa Phi Forum; 12/22/2009; 5013 words; ...Phi Fellowship is particularly helpful. (So is a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship, funded...volunteered with numerous service organizations, too, from Big Brothers Big Sisters to the American Red Cross. As for his future...

Competition among contests.
RAND Journal of Economics; 12/22/2009; 12788 words; ...order to increase magazine subscriptions. Big city marathons compete for runners. More...highest bid wins with certainty; in an R&D contest, results are more uncertain...their objectives. For example, although R&D contests and auctions typically aim...