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...tons of synthetic rubber a year to get by,* that sounded to the public like the final word. But last week the U.S. learned that it was going to have to get by with a lot less - and like it. From Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes came an order to blunt Bill Jeffers: as Rubber Director he could have top priorities on only enough key equipment to procure 425,000 tons of synthetic this year. That was 43.6% of the Baruch goal...
...would not applaud such a move are Cuban Falangists, now being rounded up in droves as fifth columnists. Possibly there was some hyperbole in Batista's claim that an invasion of Spain would receive "a total ovation for the Allied cause throughout all Latin America." But, by being blunt, Batista expressed for the first time the sentiments of millions of good friends of democracy in the Western Hemisphere who are tired of apologies and flatteries for Franco...
...despite knotty U.S. supply problems, Chennault's forces were in a position to divert Japanese strength from the periphery of conquest to protect the Empire's heart. Looking toward such a time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's U.S. political adviser, Owen Lattimore,* last week gave this blunt promise to Japan: "There will be a second front, not only in Europe but also in Asia...
Word by word, so that each might sink in, Chan Gurney read the Chief of Staff's blunt memo...
Wiry, sharp-witted Economic Director Jimmy Byrnes this week served blunt notice that even if he has to void laws he is going to attack the worst aspect of the price control snarl, namely that while luxury goods prices (see p. 83) are being held down food prices are soaring...