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...fight the war all over the world, underlined one of the most pressing of Army production problems last week. When another Army big shot recently cabled "I've got to have 1,300 crawler tractors," the Army had to rob warehouses of badly needed agricultural units, had to beggar other essential construction programs, and even divert equipment from Lend-Lease commitments.* For-in some areas, at least-World War II has turned into a tractor...
...Beggar's Power. As Palmer Hoyt looked back at six months in Washington, he understood the structural sickness of OWI. Formally, the agency exercises the President's power to direct all other agencies' communications to the people. Actually, and particularly in its dealings with the military, OWI has the authority of a beggar asking alms. The reason: instead of being present at the military chiefs' daily reports to the President, and advising him on the spot what parts of the report should be instantly released, OWI's directors are at the mercy...
...filthy, tattered flotsam of Calcutta's normal beggar population has always shocked the Westerner. Today thousands of refugees are streaming into the city from starving Bengal villages. Men, women & children swarm about hotel garbage cans, clawing hungrily over heaps of offal that spread a sickening pall of stench for blocks; Calcutta's hospitals, with beds for only a small percentage of the city's sick, report a score or more of starvation deaths daily. Private agencies feed 62,000 destitutes each day, cannot keep pace with the influx...
...handwriting for fear he would lose face with the French producers. But in show business, as elsewhere, there is a premium on speed and efficiency. And specialists not only orchestrate faster but better than most musicomedy composers. In the U.S. today only German-born Kurt Weill (The Beggar's Opera, Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark) does every note of his own orchestrating himself...
...honor of the Red Army at Ambassador Ivan Maisky's house that one of the guests said: "We could easily open a second front right now if we just turned all these fellows loose." Turning this enthusiasm to good use, Ambassador Maisky spoke as a partner, not a beggar: "It is natural . . . that the U.S.S.R. expects an early realization of the military decisions taken at Casablanca...