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Formosa. This island stronghold, still under Chiang's firm control, was given up in advance as lost. (This write-off outraged military planners who believe that if Formosa is lost, the U.S. position in the Pacific will be drastically weakened...
...General Motors Corp. slashed $46.9 million off its overseas investments, which it had carried at a book value of $96.5 million in 1941. Biggest G.M. write-off was the $35 million G.M.-owned Adam Opel A.G. auto and truck manufacturing works at Rüsselsheim, Germany. No G.M. official has any authentic information about the damage done to Opel when the R.A.F. heavily bombed the plant twice last summer. But the obvious conclusion was that the damage reports by bomber pilots satisfied the economic warfare experts in London who had Opel marked for a knockout...
...Pacific was ahead of schedule, the war in Europe behind schedule because of one great mistake-the premature write-off of Germany. In September the Nazi armies had been driven, shredded and stumbling, out of Russia and France. Winston Churchill arrived in Quebec saying, "Victory is everywhere." In Washington the Combined Chiefs of Staff, assuming that the Germans would quit before November, earmarked heavy shipments of men, arms and supplies for the Pacific. The Leyte invasion was moved up two months...
...these war-born improvements into commercial television, CBS proposes that the radio industry write off the $20,000,000 it has already-spent, that owners of the 7,000 U.S. television receivers scrap them, and that television start afresh with the wartime improvements. CBS thinks such a write-off should be considered now before any more money is spent on prewar television...
Berlin was measurably nearer to the write-off point. Hitler's capital had taken 22,000 tons of bombs since Nov. 18, this week was about one-third in ruins. Pilots reported that AA. defenses were groggy; fires raging 24 hours after the raids testified to the exhaustion of the fire-fighting services. Germans in Sweden testified to 1) increasing destruction, 2) bitter determination to hold fast...