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Crowds in the stores sent retail sales to an alltime dollar peak of $63 billion. In civilian politics there was room to swing many a cat. Strikes, political revolts, administrative squabbles, and all the luxurious bickerings of individuals testified to the lack of war pressure. In fact, war tensions seemed only to have increased the devil-take-the-hindmost attitude. Advertising space was so spangled with waving "E" pennants that it looked like a crowd coming away from a football game...
Unemployment? By the end of 1943 most of the big munitions programs, with the big exception of naval vessels, radar and aircraft, were tapering off at least in their rate of climb. An overall peak was forecast for June. Huge reserves of strategic metals had been piled up. In the plants overtime work was dwindling. In a number of places men had been laid...
...home, though we made a drastic cut by stopping all trial subscription offers and though we are still unable to supply enough copies to meet the newsstand demand, the circulation of TIME's regular domestic edition has forced itself back up to about the same 1,193,011 peak it hit just before paper curtailment-with roughly 800,000 subscribers and 400,000 newsstand buyers. And another 38,000 copies of our wartime classroom edition go to the nation's schools to be used as their textbook in current affairs...
...effects of freezing weather and no whiskey have already evidenced themselves: within four days the population at Stillman has rocketed from 15 to 29. The Hygiene Department hoped that the peak of the grippe epidemic was over and consoled itself by chattering frigidly of "upper respiratory diseases...
Behind the Headlines. That was how the story emerged in the headlines. The dry, unread manpower statistics are just as dramatic: last winter, when the shortage talk had barely begun, was the all-time peak employment period for nonagricultural labor; ever since then the trend has been down (see chart...