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Ordinary, anxious citizens could only conclude that in aluminum-for-aircraft, as in many another weedy sector of U. S. defense, the principal bottlenecks wear collars...
...Agriculture is the one sector of the U. S. economy that depends heavily on exports. Farm crops were also the chief U. S. export which, in 1940, the rest of the world could not buy. Many farm surpluses in 1940 were higher than ever; for farm prices, "parity" remained just a slogan. Yet farm income for the year was estimated at $9 billions, highest since 1937. Thanks were due less to the production boom than to Government...
...would be in normal times. Reason: it is concentrated in the warehouses of heavy industries, which, loaded with defense orders, are understandably freezing as much inventory as possible (mainly of durable goods) against possible war-goods shortages in 1941. Last week November's returns from the non-defense sector of the economy were coming in. They showed that late autumn consumption had begun to respond to the powerful stimulus of defense spending, was beginning to follow 1940's record production into a two-sided boom. Items...
...heaviest fighting was in the southern sector where the Italians were making a desperate stand, fearful of being cut off from the coast...
...central sector the Italians drove a wedge into Greece which was eventually intended to turn southward and meet a second, coastal wedge, surrounding Yanina (Ioannina). The central finger bored up the precipitous Aoos River valley, reaching its metal claw deeper into Greece than Yanina is. To get this far the Italians must have cracked at least part of the Metaxas Line-concrete trenches, artillery emplacements, rock-hewn machine-gun nests built last year and this under British supervision. The mechanized Italian "Centaur Division" took part in the Aoos drive. At week's end, by which time the Italians were...