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However distasteful this mass resettlement might be to the men & women involved, it made sound sense from the point of view of Soviet planning. One main objective of the third Five-Year Plan, which was scheduled to be completed this year, was to shift Russia's economic center of gravity out of bomb range of the European border. It was no easy project for peacetime, since nearly two-thirds of Russian industry was concentrated in the west. But the necessities of war cut through the difficulties. Last week's decree was doubtless issued to secure Russia...
Moreover, long-staple imports, chiefly from Egypt,* are not to be depended on. And if U.S. production of long-staple cotton booms (the Government is now encouraging it with special subsidies), U.S. spindles to spin it are limited, even on a three-shift basis, to a maximum of 4,000,000 Ib. a year. If all of that were spun into the best hosiery yarn, it would take care of only about 3% of the normal U.S. women's hosiery market. Furthermore, long-staple cotton has important defense uses, such as powder bags, balloons. Upshot: many a girl...
Political realists thought the President had made a political master stroke-playing the game without the name. But others, political amateurs, remembered the lesson of recent history-that voters now shift back & forth across party lines without regard to labels...
...important lines to cut were the lateral lines, which the enemy used to shift power from sector to sector of the front. Last week the Russians struck at Germany's lateral lines in four places...
Last week the balance of power and responsibility within the British Commonwealth of Nations shifted. The Dominions loomed a little larger, London a little smaller. It was a slight shift; the bulk of the power to make war decisions and nearly all the responsibility remained in London; but any change at all foretold greater ones to come...