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Last week the Stockholm Nya Dagligt Allehanda reported that the German fleet in being included three capital ships and two aircraft carriers. Responsible British and U.S. authorities dismissed this particular report as a possible Axis plant. But they did not dismiss the threat, nor did they doubt that the Germans have a sizable naval force tucked away in Norway's fjords...
President Higinio Morinigo, brought over by promises to keep him in office after the expiration of his legal term, aided the military clique in its plan to dismiss pro-Allied Foreign Minister Luis Argana and reorient Paraguayan policy toward neutral Buenos Aires rather than toward belligerent Rio. The Morinigo Government stopped work on the new $1,000,000 airport under construction near Asunción. The protests of bearded U.S. Ambassador Wesly Frost produced no results and U.S. airport engineers packed to go home...
Many doctors and scientists dismiss the phenomenon as mere illusion and folklore-perhaps because they cannot explain it. But Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians call the changing ratio "an established fact." It did not occur in the Franco-Prussian War, which lasted only a few months. Nor did it occur in the U.S. in World War I, when only 4% of the population was under arms and only for a short period. But, say the Metropolitan's statisticians, it was the experience of all the principal European countries in World...
...Workers could not quit, and employers could not dismiss, without seven days' notice in writing...
...Government power to 1) draft both men & women from 18 to 51 for war industry-either from other jobs or from their homes, 2) keep every essential worker at his job, 3) move workers from their homes to sections where labor shortages are acute, 4) forbid employers to dismiss essential workers, 5) force employers to hire through Government agencies. The U.S. bill is slightly milder, but Government officials admit that it will give McNutt "distributory control over the labor supply" and "power to freeze labor...