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...answer to this two-sided argument. The bemused Senators last week heard estimates from the two camps proving a 1943 gap between all "essential" needs and total production of as high as 12.2 billion board feet (more than one-third of hoped-for production and imports) and no shortage at all for essential needs. But there was agreement on two central points: 1) there is no overall shortage of lumber for military needs; 2) but there is not enough lumber to fill all civilian demands. For wood is the last-gasp substitute for practically every other scarce material. Though production...
When Lydia Chippman was 15 she was sent away from home. She was never told why. At 35, returning, she deeply needed to know what no one would tell her, and stared, through enigmas, relics, last-gasp confessions, upon the gradual flowering of her parents' dreadful past. Some feminine passages may give masculine readers the fantods. Yet the novel as a whole has the exquisite gentleness and exactitude, and the fascination, which reside in the proper treatment of an elaborate wound...
...Committee was a bill which would automatically up tariff rates as foreign currencies decline. As a witness on this measure last week Republican Chairman O'Brien of the Tariff Commission split with his President and his party when he said: "Our imports today are at a very low ebb. We're not being flooded by imports. Our relations abroad are already bad enough. If you want an embargo, go ahead and pass this bill." That no last-gasp Republican tariff bill should pass the House was the firm purpose of the Democratic majority...