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...breakdown at Khersoi would throw the Germans back to the Bug River, further imperil the troops still entrenched within the Dnieper bend. It looked like the beginning of a hard winter for Germans...
...neglect may be higher. In a fact-packed report on transportation the Truman Committee last week bluntly warned WPB and the Services that no further miracles could be expected from the overworked, undersupplied carriers. Only a generous quantity of new equipment and replacement parts can prevent a critical transportation breakdown...
Died. Colonel Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 54, until last August General Douglas MacArthur's Executive Intelligence Officer, peacetime yacht-skippering investment banker; three months after a breakdown induced by heavy South Pacific staff work; in Cove Neck, N.Y. Princeton '11, Harvard Law School '14, he won the D.S.C. as a World War I captain (later he was a major) of the 165th Infantry...
...Brigadier G. B. Chisholm, brilliant head of the Canadian Army's medical service, is the only psychiatrist to hold such a job. (Philadelphia's famed Dr. Edward Strecker thinks all Army medical services should be headed by psychiatrists.) Brigadier Chisholm called soldiers' mental breakdowns "a disability of the English-speaking peoples. . . . A whole generation has been taught not to fight. From earliest childhood a boy is trained not to run risks so as not to break his mother's heart. . . . The result is that in the Army there is an emotional attitude toward getting hurt." Brigadier...
...synthetic-rubber situation, which seemed well in hand when Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers resigned last month, was somewhat out of hand again last week. Five major tire makers warned of a possible breakdown in tire making, chiefly because of shortages in manpower and rayon cord. The total tire reserve was down to less than 3,000,000. The manufacturers doubted that they could meet the goal of 30,000,000 new tires next year. And some disappointed motorists began to raise doubts about the quality of synthetic-rubber tires...