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...that word as well as the bad. It requires a patience of ear and of intellect which many readers lack; patience not merely in one reading but in many. For a long time, too, it was easy to misjudge Eliot, thanks to certain of his admirers, as the mere precious laureate of a Harvardian coterie. But that time, fortunately, is well past. So levelheaded a man as Somerset Maugham has recently (in his Introduction to Modern English & American Literature-anthology; TIME, May 24) done both poetry and plain readers a notable service by introducing Eliot to a large audience, without...
...Frenchmen. The only unrationed foods in France are rutabagas, topinambous (Jerusalem artichokes) and cabbage. Rationing applies to restaurants as well as stores. The combined butter, fat and oil ration is about three and a half ounces a week a person (compared to eight ounces in Britain). For five precious coupons, a Frenchman supping at a restaurant is lucky to get watery soup, a dab of meat, an inch-square wafer of cheese. The French wine allowance is six liters (about six quarts) monthly a person...
...supply issue has been a bedlam compounded of 1) cries of "Wolf!" from civilians and businessmen at every threatened cut; 2) cries of "Shame!" from other civilians and Government men bent on greater war production. The you-can't-do-that-to-me school kept the U.S. wasting precious materials much too long, delayed realistic decisions on how lean the U.S. economy could become. But the you-must-suffer school did equal damage by ignoring the obvious fact that a bedrock economy for the U.S. must be based upon the U.S. standard of living, the highest -and most mechanized...
Germ of this solid idea was born a year ago when West Coast aircraft manufacturers, including Donald Douglas, Robert Gross of Lockheed and others, decided to pool the know-how of their companies for the duration, and to exchange scarce parts, scarcer raw materials, even jewel-precious engineering and manpower talents. So successful was their cooperation that East Coast producers soon followed their lead...
Have strength and courage, ye men of Baker. Lift your weary heads anew. For, come a few short weeks lapse of time, and you shall no longer lose two hours precious slumber standing guard. Hell no. You'll lose seven and a half...