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...long as possible. He is an officer of the Luftwaffe, as is also Colonel General Alexander Lohr, who commands ground forces in the Balkans. As an air officer, his job will also be to try to effect an ending to the Tunisian campaign which is less bloody than Dun kirk, less shocking to Germans than the failure at Stalingrad...
Donald Marr Nelson chose a new vice chairman for WPB last week and thereby underlined one of the biggest unsolved war problems now facing the nation. The new WPBureaucrat: short, sharp-eyed Arthur Dare Whiteside, president of credit-raters Dun & Bradstreet. His backbreaking job: to see that U.S. civilians are supplied with enough really essential goods and services so that war production does not suffer...
Last week, with no fanfare at all, 101-year-old Dun & Bradstreet (which grew out of the Mercantile Agency) celebrated ts first anniversary of special sleuthing for he U.S. Government and its war contractors. D. & B.'s 7,000 trained investigators are now answering some 100,000 inquiries a month for war agencies and contractors, thus freeing J. Edgar Hoover's G-men for more sinister detective problems. D. & B.'s sleuthing involves no special FBI or police-court tactics, but its routine provides a careful check on where people have traveled, and what their jobs, friends...
Algiers in the dawn of Nov. 8 was a white, triangular wound against the dun hills behind the harbor. Beyond its jetties, well out in the Mediterranean, a great naval concentration stood in from Gibraltar: the Royal Navy's battleships Nelson and Rodney, the aircraft carrier Argus, cruisers, destroyers and transports laden with U.S. troops...
...Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food price index rose another 2? last week to $3.53, highest since 1929. Meanwhile, in an effort to hold down the cost of living, the Department of Agriculture told growers of rice, peanuts and potatoes to plant at least 80% of their acreage allotments this season (for rice: 100%), or take penalty reductions in their benefit payments...