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...plants. Walter F. Crowder, chief of the Department's Business Structure & Operations Unit, said the average small retailer "can't realize what lies ahead, since most of them have fairly satisfactory supplies on hand, but replacement difficulties will be constantly greater from now on." All this gloom got on the nerves of urbane Lew Hahn, general manager of National Retail Dry Goods Association and a patron saint of retailing. Said he indignantly: "The smaller merchant would like to know how to keep alive rather than how to have a fancy death...
Without Moslem-Hindu accord and a dynamic program allowing Indians to fight for themselves against the Japanese, Correspondent Snow saw only gloom ahead. Fifth-column work would increase, abetted by bitter tales from returning Indian soldiers of white discrimination in the flight from Burma. "I have seen enough to convince me," said Snow, "that we cannot hold India against both the Indians and the Japanese...
...Antonio's student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...
...Higher-rent areas are characterized by manic-depressive psychoses-alternate periods of elation and morbid gloom. But manic-depressive insanity occurs everywhere. Probable reason: incipient manic depressives often have a psychotically quickened "drive" which carries them for a while into higher-income groups and hence into better residential districts...
...homemade lamps. This spring the wheat shortage threatened a bread famine by midsummer, but a 7,000-ton shipment from Canada brought some relief. Worse still, there's devilish little tea-and all for a war the Government will hardly admit exists. Only bright spot in the deepening gloom: you can always blame the British...