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...planes mainly built of wood on grounds of greater maneuverability, especially on quickly built temporary landing fields. The Army explains that it is not yet ready for wooden combat planes, is meanwhile ordering more & more wooden primary trainers, has available a design for an advanced trainer in which priority precious metals may be replaced by wood and low-alloy steel...
...Premier Antonescu. "We must take precautions," they said, "so that our frontiers are protected and see to it that we regain Transylvania, of which we have been robbed. . . . If you are not convinced that the German Army is able to defeat the frequently annihilated Russian Army without the few precious Rumanian divisions, then you cannot believe at all in the final victory of Germany." A few days later Maniu supplied Antonescu with "proof" of Hungary's hostile intentions, tried to persuade the Premier to quit the Axis...
...Blue publicity department, after many weeks of sore perplexity, devised felt-lined metal jackets bearing the legend BLUE to slip over NBC microphones when photographers are in the offing. New mikes, made of war-precious metals...
...real joker is that the problem of estimating the sugar supply is not mathematical. It is military. For more than two-thirds of the U.S. sugar supply comes from offshore, and it takes precious ships to bring it in. The present plight of the East Coast, in fact, is thanks to U-boat activity in the Atlantic and Caribbean. The Japs, in occupying the Philippines, cut off about 900,000 tons a year for the U.S. Besides, the Jap's conquest of the Indies closed the last big source of sugar for Britain and probably for Russia (which lost...
...Francisco's longshoremen and their waterfront employers seldom agree. But last week they loudly agreed that cargo space was being wasted, that ships steamed out through the Golden Gate with precious freights of airplanes, munitions, food dangerously and improperly stowed, that loading of vital supplies for Pacific outposts was being delayed and badly managed, and that Army & Navy officials in Washington were to blame...