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Last week the House took its turn at exploring the public mind on the subject. The Administration, putting up a bold front, had asked a year's extension of OPA's complete powers. Congressmen, whose political careers depend on their ability to gauge the temper of constituents, made a violent response...
...Dodgers, whose loud Lippy Leo Durocher threatened to jettison his ancient outfield-Walker, Galan and Rosen -and gamble on three rambunctious rookies named Carl Furill, Gene Hermanski and Dick Whitman. With Mickey Owen in Mexico, he would depend on Rookie Ferrell Anderson behind the plate. The Dodgers were pointing mainly...
Equally important is the French drive to divorce Austrians from their German cousins. Over & over again the French tell them: "Whatever you produce we will buy or Italy will buy or England will buy. You need not depend on Germany. Reorient yourself from the north towards the south and west. Be independent of Germany and stay out of trouble...
...lights, they still had much to learn about mass production. Hit-or-miss assembly-line techniques, short production runs and poor standardization of parts (the basis of mass production) keep unit costs up, output down. Most serious handicap of all is an antiquated supply system. Big British manufacturers depend on as many as 300 little independent firms for parts and materials. Lack of vital supplies held one recent week's production of Hillman Minxes down to eight cars-each of which, by company estimates, cost a staggering...
...saying: ". . . Since the only practical means of getting this economically-groggy old world back to livable conditions is through the exchange of merchandise and services . . . and since the type of people interested in publications such as TIME constitute the intellectual, social, and economic group upon which such exchange must depend, your plan should prove not only very helpful but very successful...