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...hour, General Marshall spoke with his usual even assurance, as usual without notes. Highlights: the point score for discharge will be down to 60 by Nov. 1; everybody with two years of service can hope to get out this winter; separations are running 17,000 a day, will shortly exceed 700,000 a month; the demobilization rate has nothing to do with the postwar Army's size...
...Edison produced 6,000 ranges a week. Turnbull hopes to reach this output again by midwinter, and exceed 1941's peak next year. With his sights set so high. Turnbull was sure he could turn a profit at the OPA prices...
Delegates promised to carry home the request, but none made a binding promise. Britain's delegation said that she would have a struggle to make up her 17% share. U.S. delegates thought Congress would approve the U.S. quota if it did not exceed 75% of the world total; but if other nations faltered, Congress might balk...
...much of its strength on the prospect of Russian sup port. Despite its claims, Yenan controlled not more than a fifth of China and 70,000,000 Chinese. Even that control, in the sense of mass support, had yet to be impartially assessed. Its regular army did not exceed 450,000 men, and they had only 250,000 rifles...
...album of Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (played by Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony) on transparent, ruby-red plastic discs. They were the shape and size of Victor's familiar twelve-inch Red Seals, but engineers promised that they would exceed the shellac Red Seals' normal life expectancy of some 1,000 playings. The samples seemed to have more fidelity and less surface noise than ordinary records...