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Lesson in Failure. Eleven years ago, T. V. lost his first major struggle with astute Dr. Kung, who then replaced him as Minister of Finance. Until 1940, T. V. avoided politics. He was sent to Washington, negotiated a $100-million loan from the U.S., later secured Lend-Lease help for China, got Administration approval of Claire L. Chennault's scheme to recruit U.S. pilots for A.V.G...
Besides this increased demand 1) men in the armed services eat almost 9% more meat and nearly 2½ more of all foods than they did as civilians; 2) Lend-Lease demand for food is the equivalent of adding 25 million people to the U.S. population; 3) years of rich harvests and low feed costs have encouraged livestock producers to increase their herds to alltime highs. Grain men last week estimated that to supplement the short stocks of feed, 470 million bu. of wheat will be fed to livestock during the crop year...
Charlie Vinal, Johnny Windhurst, and Ev Schwarz appeared last Sunday at the Jazz Club's ninth session of the season, with George Lugg coming up from New York to lend his trombone to the ensemble. George is currently with Ed Farley's band (which includes Rod Cless and Ken Duvallon of the old Art Hodes Columbia Five which served "Clarinet Marmalade" with bacon and eggs at Childs' 03rd Street Restaurant in New York). Lugg will be going to Canada for the rest of the month with the Farley band, and then opening at the Tic Toc here in town after...
...most pressing of Army production problems last week. When another Army big shot recently cabled "I've got to have 1,300 crawler tractors," the Army had to rob warehouses of badly needed agricultural units, had to beggar other essential construction programs, and even divert equipment from Lend-Lease commitments.* For-in some areas, at least-World War II has turned into a tractor...
...many questions about their vast oil reserves in the Middle East. Still another eye-popping Petroleum News report was that Franklin Roosevelt himself had thought of demanding a half interest for the U.S. in Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. as a quid pro quo for lend-leased U.S. oil, but had backed down before Teheran...