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This prosperity has brought trouble. With a fat slice of their business going into private lockers, the big packers and canners started an all-out push to head off the newcomer. When war started WPB slapped a pile of restrictions on food-locker plants and equipment, forced prospective builders through at least six different agencies before they even sniffed a priority. Then out of nowhere came the rumor: food lockers were to blame for the meat shortage. Even the industry fell down: WPB ordered locker manufacturers to stop chiseling on steel...
...rose Georgia's young (36) Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall, to say how far the rebellion of the leaders should go. Up-&-coming Governor Arnall campaigned last year as an all-out supporter of Franklin Roosevelt. Now he was restive. Said he: "I think the time has come for us to stand together politically. Soon we will be choosing our national leadership. Those who love the national Administration and those who hate it are all so confused among themselves that the influence of the South may well be the deciding factor in national politics...
Late in February, a Japanese spokesman announced that Japan was about to open an all-out drive for the destruction of the Chungking regime. Since then there have been military actions scattered all over China (see map). Militarily they have not been on a scale worthy of the spokesman's threat. But taken in their context of attrition, both political and economic, they add up to a real danger...
...when a Halsey-commanded force will steam directly into enemy bases to carry the offensive in an all-out thrust. But Admiral Halsey is not the type to rush headlong into battle. Every move is being planned. He will make no move at sea toward an all-out battle until he knows he has at least a 70-30 chance of victory...
...miners will not trespass on your property on April 1." He did not say "strike" -he had joined in the no-strike pledge given by labor shortly after Pearl Harbor. But his meaning was clear: he planned to turn his demand for a $2-a-day wage increase into an all-out assault on the Administration's Maginot Line against inflation. Behind the line the Administration worked frantically on its defenses. First move: a delaying action designed to gain another month for negotiation. For if John Lewis gets his raise, he will have breached the War Labor Board...