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Four thousand gasoline and sugar wholesalers and sugar retailers in the guinea-pig area opened ration-coupon accounts with their banks, began depositing, for pound and gallon credit, the coupons they had received from customers. Tellers counted them as carefully as dollars and cents, made up special ration-banking statements for the depositors and OPA. Bank guards deposited the coupons in the bank's vaults, from which they will be removed and burned by officials at two-week intervals to prevent a huge paper accumulation. To replenish their stocks of merchandise, depositors began to write the first of many...
...Excluding recent casualties in the Solomons, New Guinea, North Africa and elsewhere, and an unknown number of Commonwealth Army troops lost in the Philippines...
...arrival of American troops to Australian politics is obvious. Prime Minister John Curtin's political position naturally was strengthened by these events. . . . The Australian War Cabinet naturally continued to reserve to itself a considerable share of authority. Military decisions in Australia and the adjacent area (i.e., New Guinea) have not always been General MacArthur...
...Improbable. Dakar lacks ground facilities to base that many planes, but by using all Vichy bases in West Africa-Senegal, French Guinea, etc.-500 planes might be accommodated...
...power has been growing in the area. Heavy bombers have begun to operate from New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, as well as from General MacArthur's sphere in Australia and New Guinea, across the incredibly inefficient and arbitrary line dividing Army-Navy command in the area (see map). The Army has recently delighted the Navy by taking to low-level attacks. High-level "precision" bombing has not been too precise in the Pacific. Last week heavy bombers went into Rabaul at mast level, and sank or damaged ten ships...