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...known that three U.S. cruisers had been sunk, taken unawares at night and potted like ducks. The step-by-step victory campaign back up through the Pacific Islands wobbled dangerously on the first step. Then this week came a shock: news (41 days late) of the sinking of another precious aircraft carrier, the Wasp...
...order to save the precious war fuel the University is undertaking a mass conversion from oil furnaces to coal consuming burners. Although the change is not yet complete practically all of the heating units will be made over by November...
Where Gort is now he will have no use for decorated casks. His white charger is now a bicycle on which he wheels himself around rubble-strewn streets where busses no longer run. Petrol is too precious to use even in a general's automobile. Gort's post will require all his attention, all his talents, all the fortitude of his quarter of a million people...
After ten months of war some of the Chief's precious morning time has still to be allotted to "must" callers: Senators, Congressmen, a few civilian executives, occasional industrialists who should or must be served. At 12:40, on the lighter days, General Marshall motors to his pleasant, rambling home at Fort Myer (across the Potomac in Virginia) for lunch, then rides back to the Munitions Building at about 2 p.m. One day of the week he lunches with the other members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, then spends the afternoon with Admiral King and other top sea dogs...
Meanwhile two precious metals groups continue to prosper. Since Ihe U.S. remains technically on a gold bullion standard, the Treasury must accept gold at $35 per ounce when offered. Biggest offerer remains South Africa, where production has not been restricted for fear of political repercussions. Much less excusably, the Government also maintains its silver purchase scheme, which holds the domestic price at an artificial 71?. However tough it may get about nonessential gold mining in the U.S., the Administration is still not tough enough to cope with the Congressional Silver bloc...