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Unfortunately the Navy didn't have time to send many of these men through midshipmen's schools or even to indoctrinate them, at first. So these junior executives, bond salesmen, tie clerks and miscellaneous experts in their early 30s were commissioned as lieutenants junior grade or even full lieutenants. They donned uniforms, and it was hoped that some day they would see fit and be able to carry out the duties of an officer in the U.S. Navy. Many filled the bill; some, to the eventual discredit of the Navy, never...
monthly consumption rate of 1,500,000 bags. Then a worried U.S. began negotiat ing with coffee producers. With a price increase in the offing, U.S. purchasers were able to buy only 315,000 bags in October, mostly low-grade coffee. By last week the U.S. had only 5,000,000 bags of green coffee beans on hand. But it was so poorly distributed that some form of rationing may yet have to be resumed, unless the subsidy brings in a flood of coffee. There seemed small chance of this...
...given a great many interesting and amusing things to do and say by her author-director-husband and a fascinating and endless series of sets by Jo Mielziner on which to work, so it is doubly unfortunate that the play as such just barely fails to make the grade...
...average citizen will get substantially more food of all kinds than this year, will probably get even mere than in 1944, when he ate a record 11% above the level of prewar years. The only remaining shortages will be in pork, high-grade beef, butter, sugar and canned fish-where there will not be enough to satisfy the demand at present price and prosperity levels. And even these shortages are more apparent than real. The average consumption of meat next year will be 145-155 pounds; the record for the last 30 years was 150 pounds...
Income: "Plenty." The Soviet Government, which considers music as serious a subject as farming or factory work, has made high-grade musical composition a paying proposition. Soviet composers today are counted not only among the most respected but among the wealthiest citizens of the Soviet Union. Prokofiev, like a cautious capitalist, says of his income: "It is plenty...