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Joseph Stalin shuffled his High Command last week. By doing so, he admitted that Russia had suffered grim defeat. By the way he did it, he served notice that his country was by no means finished...
...steel stampings, has been humming 20 hours a day, turning out an order of 1,000,000 cases for 75-mm. artillery shells. So fast did it turn out its brass cases that other plants fell behind in providing the other parts. From the U.S. Army came a strange command: slow up. Bossert Co. went back to an eight-hour day until further notice...
London revealed that when British Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bownill, Atlantic Ferry Command head, flew from Canada to England last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 20) his bomber carried an unusual cargo: 100 yards of canvas for London's firemen to paint pictures on. It was sent by the Montreal Arts Club, which, impressed by a recent Canada exhibition of London firemen's art, had decided to do something "in admiration of the fine work of the men who fought the battle of flames and recorded it in paint...
...Elpha Anita Ellington, produced on Mutual's Command Performance series. From Lew Wallace via Hollywood, with inspirational dialogue...
...Indian Ocean "owing to the war situation." ∙∙ Henry Ford, who sent an ineffectual "peace ship" abroad last war, became the tenth citizen to sell or lease a yacht to the Navy for $1. (Two others: Vincent Astor, Major Edward Bowes.) ∙∙ Captain Lord Louis Mountbatfen (in command of the aircraft carrier Illustrious at Norfolk Navy Yard) declared in Washington that he had become a straphanger because cabs were beyond his means. ∙∙Debating food rations for men and women in the services, Lady Astor denied women ate less than men, told Parliament, "I eat far more...