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...torrent of Lend-Lease has apparently passed its peak. Month by month since August the flow of weapons, food and clothing to 33 Lend-Lease nations has steadily declined. Alternately, the stream of reverse Lend-Lease (TIME, Nov. 22) has just as steadily swelled, has already topped...
...first 33 months of Lend-Lease, the report showed that the U.S. had poured out $18,609,000,000, or 13.5 cents out of every dollar it spent for war. But the report also pointed up the decline in shipments. The passing of the peak gave the U.S. a breather. It could look back and see just how big a bite Lend-Lease had taken out of the U.S. economy...
...Tags, Two. The speaker thrust out a brown German field cap, its peak splashed with blood, its swastika and flying eagle half-covered with mud. "Due Tedeschi morti!" he repeated, then said in English: "We catch them coming to kill my pig. No pig for them-sons of bitch! See, we have what you call dog tags...
...people so far this winter, reports Pollster George Horace Gallup. With several winter months to go, it may pass the 25% mark set in the 1940-41 season. In the last half of December 1943, colds passed the former Gallup-polled peak of February 1942, by 40%. During the two-week Christmas period of Dec. 17-30, a quarter of the population had colds. All in all, 66% of the U.S. people have suffered either from colds or from flu since the winter began...
Three years at peak earning power is average in Atkinson's business. With quiet living and hard work, he should be among the few who stay at the top for a decade. One reason is his ease at making weights...