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Items : ¶ The bans on the making of dozens of civilian items (e.g., telephones, fire apparatus, sunglasses) were lifted as WPB dropped 41 more of its production control orders. In a few months, almost a third of some 733 controls which now strait-jacket industry will be dropped. Only enough controls will be kept to make sure that the armed services get what they need...
...reason for hoping that N.A.M., at least, will soon stop sulking and join them. It is the same reason that induced them to put their heads together. Unless business and labor resolve their quarrels, they are keenly aware that the Federal Government might step in with controls which would strait-jacket both...
...Sultan is the nominal autocrat of three countries, in each of which somebody else is the real boss: French Morocco, the northwest shoulder of Africa; Spanish Morocco, its epaulet; and Tangier (overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar), the chip on the shoulder...
...southern Luzon Americal Division jungle fighters, veterans of Guadalcanal and Bougainville, seized Capul and Biru, two tiny, strategically important islands dominating San Bernardino Strait, shortest shipping route...
Thus the enemy revealed his intention to defend, as long as life was in him, the natural stronghold of northern Luzon's mountains. This would delay U.S. use of airfields such as Tuguegarao and Aparri; it would keep U.S. ground forces away from Luzon Strait indefinitely, unless fresh landings were made...