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Responsible Army and Navy officers staked their reputations (and the safety of cities) on the conviction that the Japanese operations in the Aleutians are mainly defensive: 1) to hamper the U.S. in setting up bases from which to bomb Japan; 2) to scare the U.S. into concentrating its planes nearer home...
...from $100,000 annual sales to $500,000, thus slash the number of companies to be renegotiated from 85,000 to 20,000; 3) eliminate duplicate Government audits (i.e., price board and income tax); 4) tone down procedure so that refunds will not be forced in a manner to hamper production. Finally, the Price Boards should reverse their "consistent attitude" and make some allowance for postwar reserves. Said the Committee: "It does not aid . . . the peacetime manufacturer who has been put out of business . . . to put wartime manufacturers out of business...
...March 8). For 18 months the Germans had clung doggedly to the western part of the swamp area. In the warm months these marshlands form one of the best natural barriers in Russia. Last year this barrier served the Germans; this year it will serve the Red Army and hamper any German counteroffensive in the north. Winter's freeze made the swamps passable, and Timoshenko used the waning weeks of winter to smash through so fast that the Nazis left behind enough equipment for a full army corps. At week's end Timoshenko's army was threatening...
...General Jiirgin von Arnim, at whose heavy face the U.S. got its first look last week (see cut). Arnim might find a soft spot in the positions of the entrenched British First Army, be able to bend back the upper jaws of the trap. Like Rommel, Arnim hoped to hamper Allied concentration, demolish Allied equipment - anything to delay the showdown. After hot hand-to-hand fighting he pushed the British out of the one village (Sedjenane), lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses were light. They still held Beja and Medjez-el-Bab - and Arnim...
...Bryansk-Kiev railway, which links the German armies in the Ukraine with those on the northern front. If this drive between the fronts succeeds in cutting that line, the Russians will have made it less easy for the Germans to shift forces laterally from south to north. That would hamper the Germans in their effort to counterattack eventually in the north as they did last week in the south...