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Many Britons believed that one thing holding up an all-out air offensive in Europe was faulty cooperation between the R.A.F. and the U.S. Army Air Forces. London newspapers said so. Some U.S. correspondents picked up the story. On both sides of the Atlantic people found the report all too easy to believe: it was in character with so much that had gone before, so like those bloody Americans or the goddam British...
...extremely disappointed by the apathetic response of the Harvard undergraduates to the bond and stamp drive," Richard N. Swift '44, chairman of the drive, stated. "Although the door-to-door solicitation throughout the College has not been completed, figures available at present show that Harvard is far from making an all-out effort...
...tragic irony of the U.S.'s steel shortage was underscored last week by a new report on how much steel the U.S. can now produce. According to the American Iron & Steel Institute, U.S. steel capacity (conservatively rated a good 2½% below all-out capacity) was stepped up 628,350 tons in the first half of 1942 to a colossal 89,198,320-ton total. The increase alone meant enough ingots to build twelve more Victory ships or 1,200 medium tanks every month, and the new total represents 50% of all the world's steel and almost...
...Roosevelt had endorsed a statement, sponsored by the American Labor Party's Communist-dominated left wing, to support only politicos pledged to an all-out war effort. She thought she was giving her blessing to a program of the entire Labor Party. But in recent weeks the Red left wing has been using the months-old letter in an effort to show that she supported them against the merely pinko right wing. The President's wife, as angry as she permits herself to get, wrote a stinging rebuke to the Red wing...
...Nelson has practically staked his control over raw materials on Purp as almost the only means he has left to make sense out of the raw-materials mess. He and his aides are working overtime to squash its statistical bugs in time for the all-out test in the fourth quarter of this year. For he too knows that this will most likely be the Purp's last chance...