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...pessimistic about the outlook for "spot" reconversion programs that last autumn seemed to promise at least a trickle of durable goods (e.g., washing machines, electric irons, vacuum cleaners, pianos) this year...
...Autumn. In St. Louis, Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe J. Reeder, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, capitulated, gave the scrap-paper drive ten pounds of love letters...
Soldiers for Looms. The shortage was not of workers, but of workers in the right places. First to suffer would be the $149 million worth of civilian production authorized during the optimistic autumn. Less than half of this reconversion program will be permitted, because of shortages of materials and manpower, WPB officials now said. Last week WPB's Chairman Julius A. ("Cap") Krug halted the production of cotton yarn for civilian needs. Manufacture of upholstery and drapery material, chenille bedspreads and dishmops, would make way for an Army rush order of eight million pounds of cotton duck a month...
Commander of the band of destroyers was 25-year-old Major Frank Gleason, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Shy, redheaded Major Gleason and his men arrived in Kweilin last summer to teach demolition techniques to the Chinese. When the Japs began their autumn offensive, he and his men stopped teaching and began destroying...
Meanwhile T.V.'s appointment had given China and China's friends a new burst of hope. In a full summer and autumn of battle, the Chinese had been defeated at Hengyang. They had been defeated at Kweilin. The first break in their successive defeats was last week's victory in Kweichow. The road to victory was still up the sharp sides of mountains. But with T.V. at work again, there was a new faith that China would one day get over the hump...