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...Alcohol Argument (TIME, June 1) has obscured and delayed the buna program at its raw-materials base. It was raging hotter than ever last week when Leon Henderson's OPA (presumably hoping to pick up some much-needed Congressional good will) suddenly came out on the alcohol side. But it is now decided: for the 700,000 tons of buna for 1944, alcohol (from wheat or molasses) will contribute some 220,000 tons-about all the alcohol producers can spare from their commitments for explosives. Yet, even though the program is set, the arguments continue...
...civil war between W. R. Grace & Co. and Pan American Airways over the big South American airline they own jointly (TIME, March 16) got hotter last week. Grace has now asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to force Pan Am to sell or trustee enough of its stock in Panagra to give Grace clear-cut control...
...Balkans the struggle of guerrillas against occupying Axis troops grew hotter as the weather cleared. From Yugoslavia's island of freedom (TIME, May 25) came news last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total...
...Andover on the same afternoon, the Freshman team, hotter than ever, racked up its sixth consecutive triumph with a convincing 9 to 0 whitewash over the Royal Blue...
...room was hot and tempers hotter. The Justice Department was conducting a drive along the lines of its Standard Oil action three weeks ago (Time, April 6, et seq.). Gape-jawed Senators were told that General Electric (through its subsidiary Carboloy Co., Inc.) and Remington Arms (Du Pont-controlled) had conspired with German munitions interests (Krupp and I. G. Farben) to monopolize vital war materials, restrict their availability to the U.S. and Britain. Angry Carboloy and Remington officials made the familiar reply: if they had not made a deal to get.the German patents, the U.S. would have entered...