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...first time in ten years, unemployment ceased to be U. S. Problem No. 1. Yet even this month there were still some 8,000,000 unemployed. At the same time, many industries complained of a skilled-labor shortage. Perhaps, like Britain, the U. S. could not absorb all its unemployed because its industrial mobilization never would be complete...
...record spoke for itself. Mr. Stimson's explanation: that the Army, having in the first place overestimated its ability to absorb recruits, could be accused of nothing more than undue optimism. Many of those estimates were cooked up during debate on the conscription bill; many more during the Presidential campaign, when Wendell Willkie was huffing & puffing at unmade Army housing. Said Henry Stimson, with twinkling reassurance: "Estimates beforehand are only estimates. Anybody who has built a house knows that. I think that on the whole the defense work is coming along as well as could be expected...
Recovery and Defense. Most nearly unanimous opinion was on how to put the U. S. economy back on its feet. If "certain deterrents" are removed, 85.4% believed that private industry can in time absorb all the unemployed. More surprising was the line-up on what the deterrents are. Only 40% believed them to be all on the Government's side. A clear majority of 58.9% agreed that management is not blameless, that only by a change in business policies combined with a change in Government's attitude can industry absorb the unemployed. In this willingness to share...
Harvard's land offense depends primarily on the ability of Loren MacKinney to absorb enough blocking back assignments and technique before game time tomorrow. His actual experience in the role is limited to 15 minutes against Princeton, one afternoon of scrimmage, and a few signal drills...
...eleven seems not quite up to last year's and Dartmouth's 1944 aggregation is apparently the best in a long time. If Don McNicol's eleven lost decisively to the Green last November, it would seem that Coach Boston is in for an afternoon of watching his players absorb another licking. Should the primarily latent potentialities of the Yardlings come to light, it may be a sadly disillusioned group of Indians who stalk back to the Hills this evening...