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...Warner Bros, will take costs only. Director Michael Curtiz, Kate Smith and many another principal, following the lead of Author-Composer Irving Berlin, have donated their services. The men who do the brunt of the work do it at soldiers...
Britain and the U.S. The success or failure of any such plan would lie in basic economic and political world conditions. The condition of Britain after the war will be of critical importance. Britain bore the economic brunt of armament long before the U.S. Before the passage of Lend-Lease, England saw her gold stocks reduced from $2 billion to $152 million. Foreign investments and other assets were reduced from about $15 billion to about $10 billion. Much of her merchant fleet has been destroyed. She has been building up an increasing indebtedness, chiefly in short-term balances, with such...
...Manpower Commission must recapture the power over the college field that it has now delegated to the individual services; it must reorganize the draft so that there will be no exceptions. It is wasteful to allow one service to bear alone the brunt of a manpower shortage; an efficient allocation between the Army, Navy, and industry can only be achieved through a centralized agency which has the necessary scope and breadth of vision. And aside from the imperative task of planning how many and how soon, a procedure must be found to decide who should fight, who be allowed...
Then the action became intense, every Crimson point being matched by a Penn marker. With Larry Davis, slight Quaker guard, contributing set shot after set shot, and Hennessey and Hyde bearing the brunt of the Crimson attack, the score mounted to 55-all with two minutes to play...
Chiang Kaishek, bearing the brunt of China's immense lacks and burdens, did not have to pay immediate attention to his revered sister-in-law's demands for internal reform. But her statement was also a reminder to the Western world that much more than military strategy is now involved in China...