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...Nassau society Sir Harry and his wife gave lavish dinner dances, sometimes for 300 guests. In 1941 a society page reported: "This year even the Oakes purse feels a proportionate pinch, and there is the shadow of war to dim too much display. However, the comings and goings at Westbourne, their Caves Point villa, keep it about as quiet as 42nd St. at high noon...
...problem of incentive pay is the hottest potato in U.S. war production. It has been championed as the answer to the manpower pinch, as a shot in the arm to hop war production up as much as 30%. It has also been condemned as a backward step towards the piecework system (particularly unpopular with automotive workers), the speedup, the sweatshop...
...Production of early potatoes is up a whacking 22%, promising at least a temporary end to the pinch. Likewise up is production of citrus fruits...
...including Washington, knew how long the new rules would apply. But the pinch was on. The East's gasoline and oil was flowing off to the armed forces, perhaps for use on the Second Front...
Matter-of-fact Olaf Gerhard Thörnell, Commander in Chief of all Swedish armed forces, has 600,000 men at his command. The standard yardstick allows about half of these as combat divisions, but more could be mobilized in a pinch. Sweden has plenty of small arms, Swedish-made Bofors anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. The army is well trained, but not battle-tested. It lacks sufficient tanks and heavy armaments, is woefully weak in fighter planes, which were ordered from the U.S. in 1940 but later diverted to China. When German military power was at its height...