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...business had not only produced $84 billions of war goods in 1943, it had also gone on to produce $90 billion of consumer goods and services as well-an all-time high even after allowing for higher prices (see chart). The people had provided themselves with guns and butter too -the most guns in history, and, if not butter for every meal, with plenty of fur coats to wear between meals...
Behind the Headlines. That was how the story emerged in the headlines. The dry, unread manpower statistics are just as dramatic: last winter, when the shortage talk had barely begun, was the all-time peak employment period for nonagricultural labor; ever since then the trend has been down (see chart...
...money and the scarce goods would not alone shoot prices to their present astronomical levels (see chart...
...dozen or more such cases each day, to let the population know how badly some Germans are behaving, how ruthlessly the regime is punishing the slightest slip in wartime discipline. But to the rest of the world, this policy of revelation is a significant squiggle on the German fever chart, a new piece of evidence that Germany is weakening-militarily, politically, psychologically...
Westward across the Pacific from the U.S. flew tall, taut Admiral Ernest King, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet. Up from a post in the South Seas flew stocky, pugnacious Admiral William Halsey, Allied Commander in the South Pacific. At Pearl Harbor, in the chart-cluttered headquarters of white-haired, unhurried Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, a conference took place...