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...admirals like Aubrey Fitch, back in Washington from the Pacific, flatly said "yes." But from the Pentagon across the Potomac, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson said "no" - the Japs' failure to retaliate against Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the Superfortresses merely meant that they were hoarding "plenty" of planes against invasion. Another air admiral, DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, new Fifth Fleet chief of staff, defined "plenty." He estimated the enemy hoard at 9,000 planes...
...Supplies flowed to the front in a regular stream. Troops were not anchored down by the need to hoard fixed quantities of food and ammunition...
...expects to keep an eye on materials through a check on inventories, thus nip any hoarding. Actually, there may be little reason to hoard. Last week, steelmen told WPB: war-expanded steel plants are now big enough to supply all the steel needed for the Japanese war and still have left more than the whole civilian economy used before Pearl Harbor...
European property rights, deliberately scrambled by Nazi looters, will keep courts and lawyers busy for years after the war. The U.S. Government got a relatively simple taste of the problem last week when it tried to figure out what to do with a hoard of gold, foreign currency and art treasures captured by General Patton's Third Army in a German salt mine (TIME, April...
Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton had put in a busy day. They had inspected the horrid concentration camp at Ohrdruf, visited the salt mine with its hoard of gold and art, traveled several hundred miles by plane and jeep. When they returned to General Patton's headquarters they were tired-and a little sick from the things they had seen at Ohrdruf. They dined, then sat in a big, sparsely furnished room, talking against the steady roar of supply trucks passing outside. Around midnight they went to bed. Eisenhower and Bradley took two bedrooms upstairs. Patton's heavy boots...