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The Japanese explained that the price rise could not be avoided. Fearing a domestic inflation, Japanese people were hoarding silk. Furthermore the 1938 cocoon crop was very small. Trans-Pacific shipping costs had risen since the War started. Total stocks of silk on hand in Japan were estimated to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Paying with Silk | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Grand strategy of the Polish Armies was to retire slowly, conserve manpower, shorten their lines. Their Western stand was to be on a line running south from Torun to Czestochowa. From there South to behind Teschen they had a fortified front which the German divisions must crack or outflank.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

>Gasoline prices, upped by the Government 40% to conserve fuel for military use, forced most motorists off Italy's high ways.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Going Home | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

The secret of Gamelin's military success lay largely in his old mapmaker's and landscapist's instinct for geography. Not only was he able to take the maximum advantage of terrain so as to conserve manpower, but his shrewd disposition of fire power constantly enhanced the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Good Grey General | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Let us start a movement to lay the spectre of "third termites" and at the same time conserve our best brain power and secure for ourselves a foreign policy with continuity.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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