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There has been a bad lag in the actual movement of U.S. war material to Russia and Turkey. The long-tried patience of Joseph Stalin-smothered with promises, fed with a trickle-is near the cracking point. Turkey, which unofficially promises to go anti-Axis for the barest trifle of Lend-Lease aid, is now getting desperately nervous, because no U.S. aid arrives. The President, seeing the Lend-Lease clearance papers, takes it for granted that the goods have been shipped, does not know that they have been sidetracked by the U.S. Army & Navy for other uses...
...most of how to handle OPA control when & if it came. On this, the retailers had two main suggestions: 1) that ceilings be selective, not (as in Canada) blanket, and apply only to widely used and acutely scarce products; 2) that any ceilings imposed take account of the time lag between retailers' buying and selling periods. If ceilings are placed at both the wholesale and the retail level as of the same date, retailers see gross unfairness to all of their members, bankruptcy for some of the weaker ones who buy hand to mouth-i.e., late and high...
...single dissenting vote; the Senate took only 27 minutes for debate. If the sum was colossal (enough to build thirty-four $366,000,000 Panama Canals), so was its purpose: to build 10,000 trainer planes and 23,000 combat planes, armed capapie. The appropriation will forestall a lag in production due next August, when present orders begin...
...received careful consideration: A period of inactivity covering time lag...
...shook his head. 'That's funny. He was having as good a time as anybody up there-and the first thing I knew he was gone.' I looked at Herb with admiration. ... He was so calm, so unperturbed. . . . The dinner bell rang. . . . 'Don't lag, Herb,' said [Father], 'and don't forget to wash your hands.' Herb listened at the door until he was sure Father was out of earshot, and then turned to me and said, 'Joe never knew what...