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...deep red ink, the U.S. Government wrote finis to another fiscal year. The Treasury Department announced that: 1) $78 billion had been spent, ten times the average annual outlay of the New Deal's palmiest spending days; 2) though revenues were $22 billion, up four times the prewar average, the Federal debt had jumped from $40 billion (1939) to $137 billion. Economists who once cried "Wolf" at $8 billion F.D.R. budgets had no words left now to report their horror at the ever-widening gap ($56 billion in fiscal 1943) between what the U.S. Government took in and what...
...more information in bars from loose-lipped soldiers and sailors. To report all this in letters to Nazi agents in Zurich and Lisbon, old-fashioned Spy Lehmitz used an ancient device: between the lines of letters about Victory gardens and California sherry, he wrote his messages in invisible ink. Lehmitz pleaded guilty of espionage. U.S. authorities bugled: "One of the most important arrests...
...were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth was half filled with water...
Wingate's Raiders. The British were frank in admitting that the Burmese campaign was bad. But the whole ledger was not written in red ink. An action reported last week was a hopeful note for the future...
...them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...