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...there is another reason for this recent prosperity. Although department-store sales are 75% above their depression lows, inventories have risen less than one-third, and the gap between the two is the widest ever (see chart). Normally, low inventories are a sign of smart merchandising, meaning faster turnover, fresher and more attractive goods. In 1941, low inventories are also a danger signal. If storekeepers keep their shelves so bare in the face of a still soaring demand, they may soon awake to find themselves forced to buy in a priorities-ridden seller's market, bidding prices...
...date data in more than 2,500 different statistical fields. These range from a monthly series on business activity in Japan to weekly series on call money rates, stockmarket averages and the price of hides. From this vast statistical storehouse, TIME will select each week or so whichever chart is of special interest in the light of the week's news. This week, for example, TIME prints (in addition to its new production index) a graph of the recent increase in commercial bank loans, which have been spurred by defense to their first boom in ten years...
...able to report a change for the better. On Jan. 3 (just after he took over), of 236 Army projects scheduled, 19% had not been started, 44% were behind schedule, only 26% were on schedule, 8% were ahead of schedule, and 3% were completed. By Feb. 21, his chart read: 5% not started, 23% behind schedule, 54% on schedule, 10% ahead of schedule, 8% completed. Some of this improvement was paper legerdemain: original, over-optimistic schedules had been revised, deadlines for completing some camps had been advanced to more realistic dates. But the Army undoubtedly had learned...
...liquidated before British capitalism, but not long before. Says soft-spoken Party Leader Clement Attlee: "Nazi aggression must be stopped, but something more is needed. . . . War is the result of an anarchic world system. Unless we can change that system, war will continue." British labor's work chart for changing the system and bringing in the New Order: 1) No dictated peace; 2) a federated Europe; 3) an international socialist super-government backed up by a super-police; 4) "Bold economic planning on a worldwide scale...
...cunning and indefatigable conspirator against the rights and independence of the individual American," said her ultimate goal was "some scheme containing the most binding elements of Communism and Hitlerism"; denounced her "innocent, wholehearted, humane enthusiasm" as "only a disguise." To Mrs. Roosevelt's defense leaped the smart-chart New Yorker, which has social sensibilities if not a social sense. After a mixed tribute to the Pegler prose ("a nice combination of ginmill epithet and impeccable syntax"), The New Yorker deplored "discussing the First Lady as if she were a crooked wrestling promoter...