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Because last night's dimout failed even to approach the goal set by the military authorities, the regulations may extend 15 miles inland. Cambridge officials were planning to paint over the streetlights so as to darken them until suitable shields could be constructed to prevent any light from glowing upward, but the dissatisfaction of the Army and Navy over the effect measures taken thus far have had may necessitate even more drastic action here...
...upward trend of profits since 1938 is over. A National City Bank compilation of the first-quarter earnings of 150 manufacturing corporations proved what was long suspected: war taxes have overtaken war prosperity. Sales of the 150 were 26% ahead of the first quarter of 1941; but profits after taxes were 16% less. For 77 of the companies, Federal income and excess-profits tax charges rose from 48% to 73% of operating...
When the Office of Price Administration puts up the ceiling laths and covers them with plaster, something will follow that has never before happened in U.S. history. All upward price movements, retail and wholesale, will halt. Price tags on the nation's shelves, of pillow slips and Paris green, of cosmetics and traveling cranes, will read no higher fort the duration...
...factors may help to save the railroads, in spite of this upward trend...
Speed was the terrible necessity. Perhaps the worst mistake to date has been in underestimating the urgency and the size of the requirements, which Mr. Roosevelt and the Maritime Commission have been forced to revise again & again, always upward...