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...persons worked on U.S. farms on May 1-113,000 more than on the same date last year. This total included 8,399,000 members of farm families; the rest were hired men, women, children. A peak of 12,000,000 farm workers was predicted for July, 13-20% of whom might be women. The clamor about shortages arose because the labor demand grew faster than the labor supply, new hands are less able, and youngsters cannot handle the heavy machinery...
...planes flown by U.S. crews, Air Marshal Harris can increase the intensity of his raids. Though it would probably take a while to repeat often such raids as those on Cologne and Essen, an R.A.F. spokesman said last week: "A thousand planes nightly is not the ultimate peak. There is no reason why another thousand should not attack a second target in Germany at the same time, or follow the first thousand on to the same target...
...whirlwind tour of U.S. war plants, suave Captain Lyttelton told reporters that Britain's production was now in sight of its limit. For the U.S., he said with pleased amazement, "there is no peak." At Ford's giant Willow Run bomber plant, Captain Lyttelton praised the action of Detroit-made M-3 tanks in Libya as "just the cat's whiskers...
...sleepers, 1,000 diners and club cars, the Pullman Co. has regularly set aside 1,500 cars for troop transport. On peak days the Army had used as many as 2,900 cars-113,000 men, 39 to a car. As of last week, the company figured that its cars in use were occupied 50-50 by civilians and the military. Civilians can still get their lowers if they do a little planning ahead, but when the pinch comes Army & Navy will push civilians right out of the flossiest streamliners. Says the Pullman Co.: "Every...
...week asked for 90.000 new Federal employes (and $210,000,000) to enforce his price-control and rationing program, That is about 70% as many men as there are in all the State and local police and detective forces in the country; it is more than 20 times the peak staff (in bootleg years) of Federal prohibition agents; and it amounts to one employe for every 19 retail outlets in the U.S. But-as OPA was quick to point out -it is only one-third more than the 60,000 Britain has hired to price-control and ration one-third...