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In the history of World War II, July 1942 will be marked as a tragic month: U.S. war production tsars ran out of raw materials just when they had finally begun to answer the two-year-old question of what raw-material needs really were. Up to July there were...
How constricting that squeeze now is became clearer last week:
Despite record-breaking production, there is not enough beef or pork for everybody-for the Government is buying 30% of the kill for Lend-Lease and the Army, and the new rich are buying meat as never before. The shortage struck first in cities where the ceiling prices were lowest...
Four men had accomplished a gigantic legislative squeeze. Lobbyists Earl Smith of Illinois and Ed O'Neal of Alabama and Congressmen Clarence Cannon of Missouri and Everett Dirksen of Illinois now had the Administration, the Congress and some five million farm operators in a tight vise.
Somewhere ahead of the Germans was an even bigger objective than Russia itself: an effort to squeeze the Middle and Near East in mighty pincers. This prospect was still far from reality, but it was near and dark enough to bring Kharkov and Kursk very close to Cairo in the...