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...committee hastily revised its calculations, figured on the possibility of sending another billion pounds to Britain, cutting the home supply to 10 billions. This week the committee recommended countrywide rationing of meat; packers announced they were ready to cooperate. Until rationing machinery can be set up, WPB will assign quotas to packers for civilian sales...
...charged that, although the Castillo regime knows the Gestapo still operates in Argentina, it has obstructed investigation, that it has refused to assign regular detectives to the committee, threatened to dissolve Congress if the committee used special agents. He showed that President Castillo has been constantly closeted with General Juan Bautista Molina, head of the totalitarian Alliance of Nationalist Youth...
Hoping that the information given will be sufficient to enable you to 'assign me the proper quota for this year, and thanking you in advance for whatever attention this request may merit, I am your servant and good friend...
...Navy and Marine Corps are fussier, assign only one man to a lower...
...bear market. Britain has been subjected to at least as much bad war news and as stringent war controls as has the U.S.-though the British tax system (no capital-gains tax, etc.) is less inimical to stockholders than the American. Many dopesters have given up rationalizing the divergence, assign it to a basic difference in the two nations' war psychoses. Britain, they say, profoundly believes that the war is being fought to preserve its economic institutions; the U.S. as profoundly believes that the post-war world is bound to be an economic mess...