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...further and join the war and we win, then we have won for Stalin the grip of Communism on Russia, and more opportunity for it to extend in the world...
When (and if) Kalunite goes into production, Alcoa's once-firm grip on the U.S. aluminum supply will be further weakened at two points: the Hall process will have its first real rival, and another corporation will have joined Reynolds Metals and the U.S. Government in competing with Alcoa. This must come as a blow to 0PM Economist Grenville Ross Holden, who has fought aluminum expansion plans (unless they were Alcoa's) all along the line. Young Holden, who left Eastman Kodak to handle aluminum and magnesium matters for OPM, admitted to the Truman Committee last month (TIME...
...danger is that undergraduates who were pumped by Blitzkrieg im Westen will carry away with them, not a calm realization of Germany's grip on the continent, but an abstract fear of Hitler and the forces that are at his command. It is successful propaganda only if it makes us want to turn and run. It boomerangs against Hitler if it makes us realize something of the undramatic, thorough, machine-against-machine character of modern warfare. Preparation against the blitzkrieg, not a paralysis-through-fear, is the lesson we must draw from this film...
...present state of affairs results from an epidemic of colds and grip that has confined an alarming proportion of the student body to the sickbed...
Axis difficulties produced a new crop of rumors which swept uneasy Europe, miserable in the grip of bitter cold and with fuel and food scanty in many regions. Included were reports that the Axis was preparing for a possible British invasion of Italy, that Finland was making peace overtures to Russia and that Germany was rushing the assembly of small submarines at Bulgarian ports for a Black Sea campaign, possibly to include invasion of Turkey...