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...Parliament's job to vote new funds with which to run the country and the war. Most appropriation bills are debated fiercely. Even if Parliament should be called to pass them, would there be time? If Parliament did not meet at all, the Government could, in a pinch, have the Governor General issue warrants for expenditures. But would Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King deem that method undemocratic, politically dangerous, expedient, wise...
...group of high-ranking military and Government officials he has yet taken to an international conference. For the military sessions there were Generals Marshall and Somervell, Admirals King and Leahy, Vice Admiral Land of the Maritime Commission, and Major General Laurence S. Kuter, assistant chief of the Air Staff, pinch-hitting for General Arnold, who is abed in Washington with virus pneumonia. For the diplomatic conferences, U.S. representatives included Secretary of State Stettinius, Harry Hopkins, OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes, Ambassador Harriman, and a host of State Department experts...
Only now is the pinch of war and blockade being felt. Rice rations are bolstered by an increasing supply of potatoes. Well-to-do Japanese have used up their stocks of captured Scotch whiskey. They are falling back on sake, the native rice wine. (Last week sake production was cut 75%, to conserve rice...
...Furthermore, spokesmen warned all & sundry that the apparel industry faces a possible 1945 decline of $500,000,000 in retail dollar volume. When Germany is defeated, they gloomed, consumer interest will turn from clothes, which have been relatively plentiful, to goods that will go into production when the war pinch eases...
...west as Minnesota and Kansas, grain-elevator operators felt the pinch for cars. In Nebraska farmers cried that 100 million bu. of corn (one-third of Nebraska's bumper corn harvest last year) would spoil unless they got cars to move the grain to storage elevators...