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...time for cajolery and promises was past. The Nazi recruiting program turned to tried & true Nazi methods: Dutch labor conscripts, said the Free Dutch Government in London last week, are being forced into German uniforms to avoid "tragic consequences" for their families at home...
...first essential to the resumption of private investment after this war is to avoid uncontrolled inflation now. Morgenthau has taken the first big step. Alvin H. Hansen, Professor of Political Economy at Littauer Center, prophesies that "we may be compelled to spend one-half our national income on the war effort." This is a post-war necessity that must be taken care of while the war is still being fought...
...experimental food restrictions in the undergraduate Dining Halls, inaugurated on February 9, saved more than was necessary to avoid losses, and Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, yesterday...
...Little Room. Many a port was deep last week in boxed planes, tanks and Lend-Lease food supplies awaiting cargo space. To avoid the pile-up of 1918, which led to the Government's taking over the railroads, WPB is building a chain of emergency depots near the coasts, where goods can be stored more safely than at dockside. In some defense areas, warehousemen have pooled facilities...
...this kind of warfare, submarines were the only craft that could hope to avoid the Caribbean's watchful air patrols. Where they were based, no one but the enemy yet knew. French bases were suspiciously near: Dakar, 3,150 miles; German-occupied Brest, 4,300 miles from the Caribbean. Small, unguarded islands off Central America might have been fitted out as refueling bases...