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Theater and night-club business slumped. Even Christmas shopping, which should have hit its peak, fell...
...outfit is the Tank Destroyer Battalion, a fast-moving, hard-hitting team whose job is to go out and hunt tanks, not wait for them in passive defense. Brought to its most efficient peak in the Carolina maneuvers by First Army's wily Lieut. General Hugh Drum, the TD Battalion is already beyond the paper stage. The Army announced that 52 of the battalions had started organization and training, that it was abandoning its more static Tank Defense groups...
...slack for the new arms industry to take up, and it began to drain civilian goods, food and man power from her factories and farms right away. In the five years 1936-40 her standard of living fell by an estimated 40%. Industrial production, which hit its peak in 1939, has gone downhill ever since. At war with the U.S., Japan cannot increase this production. Only change likely in her dervish economy is the removal of some cotton and silk workers, their markets gone, back to the rice paddies, to try to feed the population...
...Decided to send a representative to Scranton, Pa. to survey possible defense-plant locations near the hard-coal source, after Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey told him: Even if anthracite mines were at peak production, "there would still be 60,000 too many miners in that area...
...miles dumped on top of that all at once. They persuaded the QMC to stagger its leaves: men who live near camp can leave Dec. 26, but men living a great distance away get 16 days, and the bulk of this movement will start Dec. 13, before the civilian peak. On that night, solid trainloads of troops will start to highball through the railroad gateways at Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, thence fan out like Panzer divisions to all parts of the Northeast, where nearly half the men live...