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...small businessmen life is pleasantly hectic. Big business bemoans shipping troubles and losses of lands, machinery and men to the war effort. Sugar, Hawaii's biggest industry, may manage to ship 850,000 raw tons this year, 10% less than last. Pineapples, the second industry, bear up well because the fruit, like sugar, goes to the mainland in the holds of returning supply and ammunition ships. Tourism was the third industry. Today tourists wear dungarees, live in places like Red Hill, a huge defense camp, are named Never Sweat Harry and Kalamazoo Joe. They spend as freely...
...made some big decisions-or what seemed to be decisions at the time. He decided to adopt Reese Taylor's centralized plan to allocate steel-and to apply it to other raw materials as well. He issued orders taking away the blank-check power that Army & Navy field agents all over the country now have over priorities -a big factor in today's hopeless confusion. He insisted he would not back down, because of Army & Navy opposition, on his promise that Henry Kaiser could go ahead with cargo plane construction...
...unless he persuades-or forces-the military strategists to adopt a specific, limited program calling for specific types of material. Thus far Nelson has lost practically every round with the Army & Navy, which in general still insist on building everything at once. And this fundamental error overstrains production from raw materials...
...Before the Japs wrested the city from the Chinese more than a month ago, it was one of the only two sizable seaports left to China and, according to Domei, "an important secret Chinese supply base." Over its 10th-Century wall flowed smuggled Japanese goods for Free China, Chinese raw materials for Japan. More vexing to Japan's military leaders, it was only 180 miles from the northern tip of the island of Formosa, a vital troop center and training ground, and 650 miles (feasible bombing distance) from Japan. These were the reasons why the Japs occupied it. Nevertheless...
When post-war planners, mindful of Item 4 of the Atlantic Charter, try to assure to all states the "access on equal terms to the trade and to the raw materials of the world," they may have to bear in mind that the U.S. in the not too distant future may no longer export but import...