Word: fractionation
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...small staff twelve hours a day. Their first task: to find out what is the bedrock level of U.S. civilian needs. This is a Gargantuan job. In peacetime, 300,000 consumer articles were turned out by U.S. factories. In wartime, OCR Boss Whiteside thinks bedrock may be a mere fraction of these, some 1,500 to 2,000 articles. Soon OCR Boss Whiteside will have his list, will know for the first time what items are needed, what items are short...
AMGOT. Amid this human scene, in the fraction of Sicily first conquered, the British and U.S. Armies last week set up AMGOT-"The Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory." Here, presumably, was the pattern of military government to be applied elsewhere as Axis territory is taken. From the U.S. Army's School of Military Government at Charlottesville, Va., and from the older civil affairs service of the British Army, scores of officers had come to rule as long as Sicily was a military theater...
...substantial fraction of the present rise in farm values is due to city-slicker dollars in search of a hedge against inflation. "Chicago money" has poured into Illinois farm land in recent months; an Iowa farm broker last week reported that one eastern moneybags had just banked $400,000 in Des Moines and was looking for land to spend...
...Atlantic is only a means to an end: Continental invasion. Opening the road does not crowd the road with the men and goods of war. That road, including the re-won Mediterranean link to the Middle East and to Russia, must still be protected by a big fraction of Allied air and naval strength. The Germans, in one of their several alibis to their own people last week, said that the U-boats were being partly withdrawn to await new devices and new tactics, that eventually they would strike again. Well aware that the Allies had won their recent gains...
...their use of newsprint by 10% (TIME, Jan. 4). Reason: an imminent paper shortage. Some publishers really tried-by slashing the size and the number of features, by eliminating waste white space, by cutting out distant circulation, etc.-but many did not. Overall newsprint consumption was reduced only a fraction more than 5% through...