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...University as adequately as possible to the student population at Harvard, which is now roughly in the proportion of six thousand naval and military trainees to six hundred civilian undergraduates. With a large proportion of our staff in uniform, we commenced publication with the idea that we would avoid such issues as would involve us editorially...
...Twentieth Bomber Command's China base after thirty-six hours of wandering just a few miles behind the Honan battlefront where the B-29 I was in crash-landed flying back from Japan bombing. I spent most of the time with crew members working out a scheme to avoid being captured by Japs, while Jap fighters and bombers throughout the morning mercilessly strafed and bombed the ship into a total wreck. I fortunately escaped any injury. I hope my story on bombing will reach you in time for publication. (It did. See WORLD BATTLEFRONTS.) For the second time...
...make sure of swift reconversion, WPB emphasized that anyone may make anything if facilities are free of war work, and materials are available. Thus, Donald Nelson said, the U.S. would avoid the "grave danger of shackling the U.S. with a regimented economy...
...people with some success and at least two French wives or mistresses became snipers-although most of the women snipers were Germans (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Some of the conscripted labor was French but much more was German, Italian and Russian. In one town, Bayeux, the German commandant managed to avoid sending the full quota of young men away to labor battalions and the people were grateful for that. The conscription rate for cattle was one cow per herd per month, which was not considered exorbitant...
Maypole Dance. To avoid credit inflation, Mr. Morgenthau ruled that not a nickel of his $16-billion Fifth War Loan could be sold to commercial banks. This rule has, to a considerable extent, been circumvented. A good part of the Fifth, like 20% of the previous War Loan, which was similarly restricted, is being financed by bank credit. This is easily done to get the cash with which to buy the current loan, insurance companies, savings banks and other investors "dump" Government securities by selling them to commercial banks. With the proceeds they buy bonds of the new issue. Naturally...