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...London, CBS's Bob Trout reported, the first thing British listeners heard from the U.S. was a boost for somebody's toothpaste. "That," said Trout, "astonished listeners to the non-commercial British radio, but it fascinated them too. As an English radio man said, it was very American...
...this week the main concern of Herrington is not where his products fight but how fast he can get them out. To speed production he has already subcontracted 60-70% of his $35,000,000 backlog, hopes to boost the ratio still higher. His deliveries in 1941's first eight months were $4,703,000, only 2% less than 1940's record-breaking total. But December sales alone were roughly $3,500,000, including $2,750,000 worth of tanks for the Dutch. For next year, if the expected orders come in, Herrington is shooting at deliveries...
...other sectors the Red Army was also surging forward. No less important strategically, if less of a boost to morale than the Moscow success, was the hammer stroke delivered on the nose of the Orel-Yelets-Kursk Salient. Smashed for the winter was the threat it offered to Moscow's communications with the coal of the Donets basin and the troops that defended it. The Soviet cavalry was harassing the Germans in retreat...
Ships. Most shipbuilders had been working five and six days a week. Five days after the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor the Navy ordered all Naval shipbuilders on a full-time basis. This means maximum use of full shifts and overtime work, and a 20 to 40% boost in production. The Navy now expects that most of its two-ocean Fleet will be in the water by Christmas 1944-two years ahead of schedule...
...boost pulp supplies WPA is mangling 25,000,000 folders of World War I draft records, baling the shreds...