Word: concerning
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Polish Shadows. What seemed to have spoiled a beautiful friendship was Mr. Willkie's very tactfully expressed concern over the eventual fate of Poland and the Baltic nations (see p. 18). Proclaimed Pravda with an air of angry finality: "The question of the near Baltic republics is an internal affair of the U.S.S.R." And: "In respect to Finland and Poland . . . the Soviet Union will be able to get an agreement with them itself and does not need the help of Mr. Willkie." But what about the help of Mr. Roosevelt? Perhaps Stalin, shouting at a Presidential candidate, wanted also...
...Allies' primary concern now, says Arnold, "is to make the coming invasion of Germany as economical as possible by drastically reducing the war potential of the Third Reich." Measured by results, Arnold believes A.A.F. losses have been minuscule. "It is possible that the Schweinfurt mission in which we lost 60 of our bombers may prove to have been one of the decisive air actions of the war." The Schweinfurt plants produced over 50% of Germany's ball bearings. The Regensburg raid caused a loss in production of 500 ME-109s. Cost of that raid to the Eighth Bomber...
Things should be calmer in 1944. But Marvin still gets emergency calls-a sugar grower needs a shipment of live frogs from Argentina to eat insects menacing the sugar crop; a silk concern wants a shipment of silkworm eggs from Turkey. He turned down a request to ship perfume essence, worth $1,500 a Ib. But when the U.S. onion crop turned out poorly, 61,600 pounds of onion seeds were flown in from Argentina...
...More Travels? The news of his illness broke, in midweek, in the House of Commons. In an atmosphere of solemn concern there was strong talk of making sure that henceforth the Prime Minister stay at home, that future conferences be held in London. Since war began, Churchill has traveled about 70,000 miles to talk with other statesmen. Britons thought this was not only an enormous lot but quite enough. Churchill may be of a different opinion...
Full Manhood. If that happens, Alcoa will not be caught napping. It has been considering a deal to buy San Francisco's Pope & Talbot Inc., the West Coast's third biggest lumber and shipping concern, operator of Alcoa's Pacific fleet of nine ships. Through such a deal, Alcoa would acquire: 1) enough ships to water-haul alumina from its Mobile, Ala. plant to the West Coast, thereby saving enough on rail costs to cut prices; 2) huge clay deposits near Castle Rock, Wash., where it could set up its own alumina-from-clay plant...