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...announcement. The action, affecting the transport of an esti mated 250,000 men per year, will force the Nazis to change to sea routes, both in the North Sea (to northern Norway) and in the Baltic (to Finland), where Allied air and naval strength can take its toll of precious ships. Hitler's hold on both Norway and Finland was weakened. But by week's end Germany had not revoked safe-conduct permits for neutral Sweden's shipping with the outside world...
When the British pulled off their little raid last month (TIME, July 12), the Cretans thought their day had come, but at the request of the British they held their hand. They stolidly watched a minor engagement between the island troops and the raiders. They saw precious supplies go up in smoke as the British fired dumps. They gloated inwardly at the damage to airfields and roads. They knew what it meant in the end-more hostages shot at dusk and buried in a common grave at the edge of a village. But they had gone through that many times...
There will be no postwar public construction unless plans are made now, warned efficient, spade-calling Major General Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator in Atlanta this week. Said he, "Precious little planning has been done. . . . There are plenty of ideas floating around, plenty of pretty pictures and idle fancies -you can't build on idle fancies...
Billy figured that he could mass-produce aircraft parts out of his odd-sized reject sheets by fitting them around the blemishes as a careful dressmaker fits a pattern to precious fabric. He also saw how to eliminate most of the usual waste and delay on scrap aluminum: his parts factory would be right next door to his ingot mill, where the scrap could be remelted and poured right back into more production...
...suggested that he had been painting for only two years. His solid, slightly impressionistic flower pieces indicated close study of the still-life masters by a man who loves nature as well as art. That Stark Young also loves literature and history was somewhat fruitily evident in his precious titles and subtitles lifted from Francis Thompson, Racine, Leopardi, etc. To Garland of the Garland (credit line: Meleager, in the Greek Anthology), in which a morose young woman in a long white dress sulks on a wall while a garlanded youth wipes his ear with a towel, Stark Young appended...