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...endless acres of the finest apple trees in the U.S. In October the trees are dusty grey from spraying; the boughs are heavy with fruit; thousands of wooden poles prop up the limbs' ripe red burden. Nowhere else does nature conspire, with volcanic ash, rainless summers and cold autumn nights, to produce apples of such deep and vivid color...
Lanky Lieut. General Mark Clark of the British-American Fifth Army rode his familiar jeep up to the front again. The Italian autumn rains had eased a bit. The spongy volcanic soil of the Volturno meadows firmed rapidly; it was possible now to drive off the roads. From a forward post the General peered across a calm, river-and ditch-ribbed valley to the German positions...
...weary Fifth's infantry had fought across one of Italy's most famous battlegrounds. Here, in the damp autumn of 1860, bearded Giuseppe Garibaldi, poncho-clad and kerchief around his brow, had walked among his ragged redshirts, crying, "Courage! Courage!" Here, on the Capuan plain, he had beaten the Bourbon King of Naples and advanced Italy a long step toward liberation and unity...
Inflation Later. The week also produced a notable fog-clearing statement about postwar inflation. Harvard's distinguished pro-business economist, Sumner Slichter, in a special supplement to the autumn Harvard Business Review, explored the probabilities of a dangerous inflation after the war. He concluded: 1) the danger of the now-famed, and admittedly enormous, '"inflationary gap" has been grossly exaggerated; 2) the danger of an all-out postwar inflation is lessened by the fact that price control today has been "fair" rather than "perfect"; 3) the admittedly huge liquid funds in consumers' and corporations' pockets will...
Advocating a new method of banking for post-war finance which would require more risks, J. Franklin Ebersole, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance at the Business School, has written the article "Banks Call Make More Postwar Jobs" for the autumn Harvard Business Review...