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When Farish died he left behind him a task that in its scope and importance makes the position of all but the very top Washington politicos look like small change. A big war producer (including synthetic rubber) at home; in the thick of war itself abroad and on the high seas where it commands the largest private fleet in the world; deep in Good Neighbor policy, especially in Venezuela; snapped at by Thurman Arnold for its former connections with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie-Standard Oil is the most far-flung industrial empire U.S. enterprise ever put together...
These radical changes were foreseen last month (TIME, Nov. 23), but their full scope was not revealed by the Army and Navy until last week.* All told, some 250,000 young soldiers will get a year of college education "on a broad democratic basis without regard to financial resources." Cost to the Government will be a half billion dollars-the greatest scholarship fund ever established, equivalent to the total yearly cost of college teaching...
Temporary Stalemate. After many days of local skirmishes between companies and battalions, the battles on the Stalingrad front suddenly increased in scope and fury. "Large groups" of Russians within besieged Stalingrad tried to break out and join Russian forces on the outskirts. On the Don front, west of the city, two German regiments and 80 German tanks drove back the encircling Russian lines. The Russians said only that they retreated. This week Moscow dispatches reported "a temporary stalemate," and said that the Russians were now looking to winter weather to win their winter offensive...
Propaganda Brew? Last week, for reasons known only to the Berlin Government, the official radio deliberately exaggerated the scope of recent changes. It "announced"' that 44-year-old General Hans Jeschonnek was now chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff, that Admiral Kurt Fricke had become chief of the Navy's General Staff. Actually, Jeschonnek has been chief of the Luftwaffe staff (under Inspector General Erhard Milch) since February 1939, and Admiral Otto Schnie-wind, whom Fricke allegedly replaced, has had another post (Fleet Chief) since 1941. Berlin, in short, was again manufacturing news for propaganda purposes...
Last week demonstrations by Floyd Ramsdell of Worcester Film Corp. brought nearer the day of movies in depth and color, when the screen will seem to be a stage of unlimited scope. Persistent, inventive Floyd Ramsdell does not use a double camera or double projector, relies instead on a "beam splitter." This mounts two lenses on a single camera, prints the two pictures-one from each lens-side by side in each frame of a motion film. The projector may thus be any standard make but is also fitted with a beam splitter which sets the two pictures almost over...