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...basis of known fact, the opportunity is here. In a little while Germany may offset the advantage in air power which today lies with Britain and the U.S. An air offensive that is too late may have missed the one chance to prevent a final German victory in World...
Reason for the purchase: something had to be done to offset C.I.T.'s drop in installment-plan financing. With new-car sales taboo, used-car sales on the skids, and radios, refrigerators, etc. on the way out, C.I.T.'s first-half business dropped 50% to $433,000,000, a four-year low. This left C.I.T. with a lot of cash ($48,000,000 on June 30), plenty of ambition -and practically no place...
...sermon: such increases for any one group must not continue. Wage earners must forgo wage increases beyond those dictated by necessity. Ceilings must be put on many farm prices. (Price-controlled commodities have gone down, but this has been offset by a rise in uncontrolled goods.) Corporate profits must be cut. "Unless we step in and put a stop to further increases those ceilings will crack and our battle for stability will be lost. ... It means that the cost of living will begin to skyrocket, that demands will outrace incomes in a dizzy upward spiral that can only...
...terrifying naval superiority in the Pacific. Now the enemy was a cut below the U.S. Pacific Fleet in sea-air power, but it was not yet time for the U.S. to crow. Its newly won superiority was still too thin for broad-scale offensive action, and it was offset by the Jap's formidable holding of island bases (stationary aircraft carriers) in the western ocean...
...small part the Ferrying Command has offset the loss of the Burma Road...