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...about for years is the miraculous freight movement that took place in 1943 before ice made the miracle impossible. The Lakes shipping got off to a bad start, opening a month late last spring (TIME, May 3). Then the spring fogs lasted all summer, right into August, when the autumn fogs began. Shipping went through the then-universal shortage of manpower; and Government rush orders, especially for iron ore, made it necessary for ships to make quick return trips empty, instead of waiting for coal or grain. Later on, there were similar rush orders for grain and coal. But despite...
Lovers and Friends (by Dodie Smith, produced by Katharine Cornell and John C. Wilson) is Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey adroitly wasting their time on a tedious drawing-room comedy of English puppet love. Dodie Smith, who in Autumn Crocus and Call It a Day wrote agreeable matinee folderol, in Lovers and Friends has worked out one of the oldest problems in sexual geometry on a theatrical abacus...
...This autumn the cost of living is 164 times what it was when China's war began in 1937. A year ago it was 80 times the prewar level, which gives economists hope: the rate of doubling and redoubling seems to be slowing down. Before the great Allied victories, prices were doubling every eight months. But China's transport planes still devote precious tons to the hauling of bank notes, and President Chiang Kaishek's Government still hesitates to apply full force to arresting the tide...
Atlantic. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confirmed what Navy men have known for weeks: the Nazis have failed miserably in their autumn "comeback" in the Atlantic. In August, September and October approximately 60 U-boats were destroyed. Of these at least 21 were sunk by U.S. carrier-based aircraft. In the last six months the Nazis certainly have lost 150 of their 400-500 submarines, probably many more...
...world's longest parachute jump 40,200 feet). Colonel Lovelace announced that by next year the U.S. will have 100,000 airplane ambulance beds. Latest released figures on air ambulance transport were given by Lieut. Colonel Richard Meiling of the Air Surgeon's Office: since the autumn of 1942, the Air Transport Command has evacuated, by air, 125,000 patients. In one area, the 12th Air Force moved 25,000 sick & wounded with only one death en route...