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Coach Howie Odell's eleven will come into the Bowl tomorrow at its mental, if not physical, peak for the 1945 season. Their hopes for a successful Ivy League record blasted by a tremendous upset at the hands of Brown three weeks ago, the Elis came back in the second half of last week's Princeton game to gain a leg of the Big Three championship and begin a psychological upswing that will make them a tough team to beat at New Haven tomorrow afternoon...
...these rosy forecasts, warned Small, were made on the assumption that "production would not be seriously interrupted by external causes." Such "external causes" as strikes and price squabbles had already hit auto production so hard that it may not reach its peak until late 1946. Then, Small estimates that it will employ 569,000 workers (twice the 1939 level...
More serious loss to plantation owners is the labor needed to produce the prewar peak of 1.3 million tons. The Japs rounded up thousands of natives, sent them into Burma to build airstrips and military roads. More than half, said Cake, are believed to have died from ill-treatment. He estimated that it would take three to five years to get production back to normal...
Unofficial estimates were that 3,000 Allied transport and tactical aircraft had been lost among those jagged peaks. But for this price, the U.S. had backed China (and U.S. units in China) with invaluable aid: 78.000 tons went over the Hump in the peak month of July...
...predicted Christmas-tree cutters in the Pacific Northwest, which furnishes a third of the nation's trees. Moreover, wholesale prices will be about half the 1942 wartime peak. Retail tree sellers, as usual, will charge what the traffic will bear...