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¶ The long-term standard, fixed by Potsdam-that Germans were not to live better than the average European. Some Americans who knew prewar Germany were shocked when they began to realize how great a drop that was. Germany (despite her self-advertised status as a "have-not" nation) had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Winter of Discontent | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

The move is more than an attempt to outguess Alcoa postwar strategy. The U.S. now has so much aluminum that WPB's C. E. Wilson recently said "it is running out of our ears". But the fact is that the U.S. will exhaust its high and medium-grade bauxite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: The Boy Grew Older | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Yes, said Navy Secretary Frank Knox last week before the House Naval Affairs Committee. He predicted a serious shortage of crude oil within a year. Within 14 years the U.S. will be a "have-not" nation in oil, he said, when the last drop of its oil fields is drained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Gas? | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Senator Lodge based his speech on a simple fact which many Americans are unaware of: at the rate natural resources are being used up in World War II, the U.S. may be a have-not nation after the war. in such once-plentiful basic materials as oil. To Republican Lodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Postwar Realist | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

The Martial Years. The next decade saw Japan on the march, first in Manchuria, then in China. Yamashita, who served a term in the War Office as Chief of the Military Affairs Division, began to talk Nazi-fashion. "War," he said, "is the mother of creation." Japan, he cried, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Is Hitler Running Japan? | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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