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...National Industrial Conference Board this week reported that total U.S. employment at the end of June reached 63,500,000. This was not only a new peak; it was more workers than had previously been thought necessary to meet all military and civilian production goals. Yet the U.S. today is not meeting those goals and lack of manpower is a prime reason for the failure...
...fact: production of military plane engines at the $141,000,000 Lockland, Ohio plant has nose-dived 85% from the peak reached in March, last month was still only one-thirteenth of the projected capacity of the plant...
...Great Hall was originally the home of a students' dining co-operative, and at its peak in 1898, fed 1,320 men three meals a day. As the center of University life moved south towards the Charles, however, the co-op became less popular and closed in 1925. From that date until the outbreak of the war the hall was seldom used...
...Allied forces, too, had fought far better than in the Tunisian campaign, had reached a new peak of efficiency in their cooperation. The U.S. forces in particular showed, at Troina, at Randazzo and in their amphibious flanking movements on the northern coast, that they could take the best the Germans had to offer in the worst terrain they had yet seen, terrain in which their advantage in numbers hardly counted because large forces could not be brought into action...
Though Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service announced last week that infantile paralysis, nearing its seasonal peak, is subsiding nationally, the disease has almost reached the epidemic stage in the U.S. The nationwide total since Jan. 1 is 2,753 cases, more than double the figure for the same period last year. Analysis of the half-year situation shows the present total to be higher for the same period than any year since...