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...High Command said the frontal menace to Moscow was growing graver by the hour with the annihilation of Red Army forces trapped in the Vyazma and Bryausk areas. It said the number of Russian prisoners taken in those pockets had surpassed 350,000 and was climbing steadily...
...asked them to turn over 100 more tankers to the British, 25 of them immediately. With the 50 tankers already turned over (TIME, May 26), that will cut the U.S. coastwise tanker fleet by 40% to 200 vessels. It means the Atlantic seaboard gasoline famine is closer and graver than ever...
...remembered Secretary Ickes' startling (even for him) charge at the committee hearings: "When the story of this war comes to be written, if it has to be written that it was lost, it may be because of the recalcitrance of the Aluminum Company of America." Grave looks became graver before Mead finished. His most dismaying statement: "It is estimated by the Services that the peak of their requirements ... of 100,000,000 lb. per month will be reached in March 1942 . . . production capacity in March 1942 will be 75,000,000 lb. . . . a shortage...
...same hot sun brought still graver trouble to U.S. powermen. TVA's reserves were so depleted that it had only a nine-week supply of water left. In Nashville, Tenn., in the midst of TVA's vast power development, the Vultee aircraft plant had to close down, suspend work on observation planes for the U.S. Army, dive bombers for Britain...
...Friday, June 6th, and urging that the Harvard Student Union "be exposed for the true termites that they are!" demands careful critical examination of its entire logical development; for its motivating idea is convincing a progressively larger and larger portion of the population--and is in consequence becoming a graver and graver threat to the very basis of all democracy...