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...could not depend on his own personal political shrewdness, on his personal stony capacity for the killing of those who opposed him. Now he was forced to admit that he depended on the millions of Russian soldiers. For once Joseph Stalin depended more on the Russians than they...
This year the fabrics (good and traditional) are American-made except for the lamés. And the designers had to depend on their own ingenuity...
...Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations...
...needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia and New Caledonia for lack of ships. . . . The Government's Metals Reserve Company, belatedly building a stockpile, had 422,000 tons on order, only 31,700 tons delivered...
Task. Readers who do not believe in FORTUNE'S basic assumption will find its arguments less convincing than its picture of the facts. To people who believe like Herbert Hoover ("Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations."), the tasks in which FORTUNE'S editors say the U.S. is failing are themselves unnecessary. Unpredictable developments in the war may reduce the urgency on which the editors insist-the Germans and the Russians may cancel each other out more than they believe possible; the turns and twists of modern...