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...psaga of Psmith ("the p ... is silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner...
When would U. S. capacity be great enough to meet any defense task? The soonest possible date was late autumn 1941-ten months. Many men believed Hitler would try for a knockout of England in April. Between Hitler's April and America's October stretched a hell-to-pay period that no man could foresee, and that few cared to contemplate...
...smallest and rarest of American species. It is white, with black wing tips. Northmen call it the "galoot" or "scabby-nosed wavey" (its bill has rough bumps at the base). Its official name came from Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor at Fort Resolution. In autumn the birds migrate south and west to spend the winter in California valleys...
Last week U. S. business started down the year's home stretch into its biggest payoff period-Christmas trade. Business' seasonal pattern each year starts with a production upswing in late summer, when consumption is relatively low. Production outstrips consumption through each autumn. Then, after Thanksgiving, the consumption season begins, and business guessmen make book on whether or not autumn's inventories will be used...
...warehouses of heavy industries, which, loaded with defense orders, are understandably freezing as much inventory as possible (mainly of durable goods) against possible war-goods shortages in 1941. Last week November's returns from the non-defense sector of the economy were coming in. They showed that late autumn consumption had begun to respond to the powerful stimulus of defense spending, was beginning to follow 1940's record production into a two-sided boom. Items...