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Biting their nails like so many prospective fathers, businessmen have waited for third-quarter earnings of the "reconversion" quarter. Only then would they know what cutbacks and the shift to peacetime production had done to profits. Last week, as the first batch of reports came out, the nail-biting stopped...
Stepchild. From now on the sale of surplus consumer goods will be made through the War Assets Corp., a Reconstruction Finance Corp. subsidiary. The shift, from the Department of Commerce, was made at the request of Henry Agard Wallace. Thus he neatly sidestepped the storm over bungling in the disposal of surplus property due chiefly to inept legislation...
...gave him some of the American chewing gum he asked for and asked him why he wasn't in school. "School? Oh, I'm on the morning shift now, and besides, the Americans took our school and I have to go to another one very far away, and anyhow I am busy." At that point we came to the mess and as I had to go in if I were going to get anything to eat, I left him with an invitation to come...
...peacemaking Government of Premier Prince Naruhiko-Higashi-Kuni decreed-for what it was worth to the outside world-that autocracy was out, democracy in. An extraordinary "epochmaking" session of the Diet was summoned for Sept. 4 to legalize the shift. The influential Nippon Times editorialized urgently: "The old order is finished and the work of building a new world must be started immediately...
...citizen could find some symbolism in the Trinidad incident. Official Washington, dazed by the swift shift to reconversion, was certain of one thing: the tank was filling up, reconversion was happening. But how smoothly the engine would run, how well the tank would stay put, how far the tired tires would hold up on the way to the good old days, was still largely a matter of guestimating...