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Horse Meat Helps. Almost half of France's newborn babies were underweight, and the child death rate had increased by 25%. Tuberculosis deaths were up 51%. The Germans had drained off dairy products, livestock (a quarter of France's cattle, a third of her draft animals), huge quantities of wine (for the Wehrmacht: 60,000 bottles of champagne daily-though the Germans, who did not know enough to specify the vintage years, did not get the best). Last week in towns where retreating Germans left dead horses on the street, the inhabitants eagerly butchered the carcasses...
...curb the great manhunt sweeping France, Charles de Gaulle asked resisters behind the lines to give up their arms (women partisans first). He planned to draft the F.F.I.'s trigger-itchy young men into the regular French Army...
Late Men. When Field Marshal Heinz Guderian took charge of the Wehrmaoht (TIME, Aug. 7), he had to draft reserves available for the west to bolster the German east front. Last week Guderian had to draft a field marshal from the east, where he had stopped the Russians before Warsaw, to try to stem the Allied tides in the west. The new oberbefehlshaber was stocky, monocled, 53-year-old Walter von Model (rhymes with yodel), popular in Germany, a Hitler-Himmler favorite as well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River...
...like to call themselves "the embattled farmers." Roy & Jake have one secretary in common, and she sits down the hall. They seldom dictate letters; when Roy decides that a letter must be written, he painstakingly writes it out in longhand, sometimes puts in a whole day on a draft...
...Problems. All of this, from turkeys to bonuses, is simply the Grumman way of getting the greatest production in the shortest time. As a result, neither absentee ism nor lack of manpower, the plagues of other war plants, have been a Grumman problem. Turnover, for all causes, including the draft, has been a small 2.3% so far this year, about half of the aircraft industry's average. Swirbul is fond of saying: "We're cold-blooded about all this, simply go out in the plant and tell the boys: you work a little harder and the company will...