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...only major German activity during the pause was reconnaissance. Day after day a few of the enemy came over, usually at tremendously high altitudes, apparently to observe, to photograph, to chart. What would be done next in Britain, only Hermann Goring and his boys could...
From able Economist A. W. Zelomek of Fairchild Publications, now dollar-a-year man with OPM, the delegates got a good idea of how potentially explosive the price situation was. On a chart he showed that total U.S. production had risen sharply last year until about October. Then, as the U.S. neared the limit of present productive capacity, it reached a plateau which can slope upward only slowly in the future. But the amount of production going into armament had increased sharply since October, would increase even more in the future. Henceforth production heretofore taken by civilians would have...
...that time the invariable wartime economic pattern had gone far. Shortages had developed, competitive bidding by Government agencies and civilians had sent all prices into an almost vertical rise (see chart, p. /
Baldish, greying, affable and modest Colonel Parker bosses an army of more than 1,400 subordinate engineers, some 9,200 construction workers. When he is not working in his map-and-chart-laden office, he travels over his huge project in a TVA plane. Says he: "We are able to get specialists in our organization and keep them, because of the nature of the work. We exchange ideas. We not only design our projects but we have our own force to construct them, so that there is co ordination...
...routes 50% to 700%, and old ships have been called back into service. In March of 1939 only 17 U.S. ships sailed to Africa; now there are 51. Ships going to the Far East have increased in number from twelve to 82, to India from twelve to 25 (see chart). Sailing totals have increased even more. Examples: Robin Line and American South African have upped sailings to Africa from 24 to 100 a year; American Export has 54 sailings to India against nine; American President Lines has increased round-the-world sailings from...