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Complex Foe. Most of the Partisans today fight with captured rifles, hand grenades, machine guns. The larger units employ German-made artillery and tanks. Scarce items-medicines, winter clothes, shoes-are supplied by Red Army planes and parachutes. An air shuttle service flies doctors and Army officers into guerrilla territory, flies the wounded out. The bigger "armies" operate their own bakeries, hospitals, community bathhouses. Many mimeograph and distribute their own newspapers...
...announced three months ago, to bring free symphonic music to U.S. small towns by hiring leading symphony orchestras to play at union expense. Petrillo's unemployed union members had viewed the plan skeptically, especially when informed that he was setting aside $250,000 of good union funds to employ musicians who already had good symphony jobs. But Jimmy Petrillo went ahead and put on his first major symphony concert last week in Poughkeepsie...
...Many Jobs? Albert Lea's planners took as their objective "a [postwar] job paying a living wage for every worker who wanted one." The eleven biggest industries in the town (meat packing, machinery, etc.) were asked to write down their employment and business volume for 1940 as against 1943, and their hopes for the first year of peace. The eleven, encouraged by a 125% war expansion, figured they could employ 60% more people after the war than in 1940. Hearing this, the city's 442 other employers upped their own payroll estimates...
...Committee abolished one obstacle to economic reconstruction: the law requiring foreign enterprises to be 51% Chinese-owned and to employ a Chinese general manager. Now the welcome sign was officially out for foreign capital under Chinese law (TIME...
...Even C.E.D.'s pet community committees have already showed up some difficulties in the Hoffman approach. Peoria, C.E.D.'s first test city, made a fine case history statistically; its businessmen made concrete plans to employ 30% more people after the war than they did in 1940. But when it came to publicizing their survey, all individual company plans had to be left out: they were trade secrets...