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This was the same awful fear that panicked the U.S. into theeconomy-of-scarcity regimentations of the late unlamented NRA. For Mr. Whiteside's consuming fear-a fear shared by many-is that all-out production of peacetime goods during the transition from war to peace will glut the postwar market. "If we let manufacturers loose now to produce as much as they want to," he said, "I don't know what we would do at the end of the war." (Behind this fear was another one which constantly agitates WPBigwigs: that an early-bird reconvert would...
Marshall's toughness begins with a thundering, all-out attack. The boys are no taller than 5 ft. 7 in., but they have been got into walloping condition by tall, dark Coach Louis Weintraub, who toured Japan with Michigan's championship basketball team in 1929. He calls his squad the "Commando Class" and puts it through such daily musts as 20 chin-ups, 75 pushups, 30 dips on the parallel bars and a 20-ft. pole climb in less than ten seconds without using the legs...
Fortnight ago, Premier General Hideki Tojo told his nation that "there is only a hair's breadth between victory and defeat," warned that Japan must pay a high price for victory: a national service law, all-out production of ships and planes, increased taxes, spiritual mobilization on the frenzied Yamato pattern exhibited at Tarawa, Makin, Attu...
Radcliffe will held its second United Nations Benefit tomorrow evening from 5:30 o'clock to midnight. The benefit is an all-out effort by college clubs, organizations, and students. "Radio Radcliffe," the college broadcasting station, will sponsor the informal dance in Agassiz Hall from 8:30 to 12 o'clock...
...Island-Hopping makes me sick, too. . . . I'm for Eisenhower. I'm for MacArthur. . . . You can't whip Germany by whipping somebody in Senegambia. I'm a 'cross-Channel' man, myself, and I think we've finally got the right idea in an all-out Western Front attack...