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...Sicily, required months of preparation. The Allies were able to use 3,267 bottoms in the Mediterranean. The Navy had to make the best of a few score preparing for the Munda operation, shuttling them back & forth to move a load that could have been transported in one haul by a big merchant fleet. Concluded Correspondent Norton-Taylor...
...finally up against the hard fact that it has more jobs than workers and that the disparity is growing. Employment is at an alltime high (54.3 millions); unemployment is at the "irreducible minimum." Yet the aircraft industry needs 600,000 workers quick; and the armed forces will haul away another two million men by next July...
...office gave Easterners their first clear oil painting of the future. Fuel-oil users will get "at least" as much oil to heat their homes as last winter, possibly more. Gas-starved Eastern motorists will get relief, too. Now that tank cars can be freed from the Eastern haul, gas & oil supplies can be equalized from the Rockies to the Atlantic. Eastern A-card holders will probably have their gas allowances upped from one and a half to two or three gallons a week, to use as they please; Midwest motorists will probably be cut from four gallons...
...faults that got them captured are released immediately. Others are marched off to "Shickelgruber's Pokey," a 50-ft.-square area surrounded by 16-ft. barbed wire. Overhead floats the German flag. The sloppiest soldiers get mild labor (ditch-digging), are taunted by insulting guards. Biggest single haul: 25 enlisted men. Highest-ranking haul: a colonel...
...hint was given of the total count of cannon, tanks and trucks. One guess at the loot taken from Arnim's armies: a thousand fieldpieces, two or three hundred tanks, six or seven hundred planes. No one would guess at the haul of small equipment: machine guns, mortars, and such oddments of fighting apparel as helmets and side arms...