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China lost her major railroads in the first few months of the war. She lost control of the Yangtze River Valley, which is far more important to her transportation than the whole Mississippi River Valley is to us. These things made it impossible to shift troops rapidly or to get food from the areas of plenty to those of acute deficiency...
President Truman was known to be worried about relations with Russia. Harry Hopkins in Moscow, said London sources, had found out that Stalin was worried, too. Stalin had gone all out for cooperation with capitalist countries; the build-up of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks in Russia would make a shift embarrassing. The Russian people certainly did not want to contemplate the prospect of World War III. Maxim Litvinov, who represents those Communists who believe in cooperation with capitalist democracy, was pointedly brought from his obscurity to attend a Moscow dinner for Hopkins...
...Brazil's Velloso or Cuba's Belt were not enemies of world organization. Their nations had relied so long upon the U.S. for their fundamental security that they could no more bring themselves to abandon this shield than the U.S. Congress could bring itself to shift its main reliance from the Army and the Fleet to the Security Council...
Since adoption of a 30 hour week would provide increased leisure and an accompanying increased desire to spend, particularly on travel items, it would help solve this important phase of the economic problem. Efficiencies of the two shift system that the six hour day would necessitate would, said Professor Hansen, result either of which might in the long run contribute to demand...
...other hand there was the evidence of Mrs. Mayle, a midwife, who after a careful examination of Elizabeth's torn shift assured her mother: "You may make yourself easy, for I see by it that no man has debauched your child...