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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other experts doubt that the postwar U.S. can produce $5 billion of the kinds of goods that Russia will require. Starting with U.S. wartime production (the only fairly firm figure in their calculation), they subtract their guess at the U.S. home demand, and subtract again their guess at the demand of other foreign customers. Result: they figure that the U.S. cannot export more than about $2 billion a year to Russia...
...Russia's total production, would not even begin to pay the service charges on a $7 billion loan. But those were Russia's exports during the period when she was building her industrial plant from scratch. Over a 30-year period, Russian exports could undoubtedly expand. Best guess in Washington for Russian exports to all countries in the first five postwar years: half a billion yearly. The U.S., which never took 5% of Russian exports, might in future get as much as 40%, or $200 million worth of coal, metal, oil, wood products (particularly pulp), etc. But this...
...long-rumored new army, the U.S. Fifteenth. Two facts were disclosed about the Fifteenth: 1) that it was attached to Bradley's Twelfth Army Group; 2) that it was commanded by Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, brilliant former commander of the V Corps. The Germans were left to guess the rest. They might plausibly guess that the Fifteenth would be poured over the Remagen crossing, as soon as the defenders were pushed beyond artillery range...
...C.I.O.'s best guess: income $200,000,000,000; jobs, 60 million...
...just as fast as the law and the Navy will allow." Actually, Miss Mac vows, she may wait only for the law. "I am still sure colleges are my role and nothing has made me more sure of it than life in the Navy." Miss Mac could only guess at the feelings of 82,000 other WAVES...