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Wickard, who has also been Food Administrator since last December, the nation's food distribution had veered from confusion to possible disaster-a fact highlighted by last week's nationwide meat shortage. The farmers had wrought a miracle of production last year, hoped to create another this year. But from Washington they had gotten everything but help...
...much havoc it has wrought, neither Washington nor London cares to admit. The German Admiralty has claimed that German submarines, aircraft and surface raiders sank just under 9,000,000 tons of Allied shipping in 1942. The reputable Christian Science Monitor declared that Allied, sinkings are now at the rate of 1,000,000 tons a month. In 1942, according to Mr. Roosevelt, U.S. shipyards produced 8,090,800 tons...
...since its inception, has indicated that he and his colleagues are well satisfied with the progress shown to date. "From our experience in the past five months, the Plan certainly looks feasible as a long range undertaking," he stated. Maybe the day will even come when one of the wrought-iron gates in the wall around the Yard,--instead of flaunting the mark of the class of '98, will bear this inscription: "Erected by the Electrical Workers, Trade Union Fellowship Class...
...brief career at the side of the anti-Axis powers he had wrought good and evil. Dakar had fallen to the Allies without a shot. The progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold...
...score is, he had learned to see through big people and little people, he had absorbed some hazy ideas about the Intellectual and Social History of Western Civilization and had for better or worse grown up and set. And all the while the learned old ivy and the ageless wrought-iron gates had gotten more important than the skeptical Vagabond had ever thought they would. He appreciated the feelings of the man who wrote, "The saddest tale we have to tell, is when we bid old Yale farewell," only not Yale...