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...confident of ultimate victory, saw its progress seriously retarded by defeats in China. Everywhere, the key question was asked: how long will it take to defeat Japan after V-E day? After picking the best brains in the State, War & Navy Departments and the Federal Economic Administration, the OWI came up with an answer: "One and a half to two years . . . is considered an absolute minimum." Other U.S. authorities recalled Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home's warning of a year ago: the U.S. must prepare to fight the war in the Orient until 1949 if need...
...battleships but weaker in other categories than at the time of Pearl Harbor. Some authorities credit it with three new battleships mounting nine 16-inch guns; Jane's Fighting Ships (new edition) credits it with six. That means a Jap battle line of eleven to 14 units. (The OWI struck a compromise, listing ten to 13.) The U.S. has 23 battleships in commission; Britain has at least 15 ; France has one modern ship of the line, the Richelieu, and one veteran; cobelligerent Italy (see FOREIGN NEWS) has two new ships and four modernized oldtimers...
...said the War & Navy Departments last week in an OWI statement: V-day may be spread gradually over days and weeks. No general surrender of the German Armies is expected; they may gradually disintegrate and surrender piecemeal. And the Allies' policy is not to accept surrender from any hastily contrived substitute German Government; the Allies are not looking for any Nazi Badoglio; the war with Germany will be finally over only when all Germany has been occupied, town by town...
Married. Carolyn Anne Davis, 19, only daughter of OWI Chief Elmer Davis; and Lieut. Morris Kaplan, 34, newswriter, medically discharged from the Army after service with the Transportation Corps in England; in Washington...
...effect of this trend has not as yet shown up in overall figures on employment said OWI. In fact, the total employment of women last July reached an alltime high-18,590,000 as compared with 11,000,000 before the war. Nevertheless, the number of women in manufacturing dropped 134,000 between January and May of this year. And the July top came largely from seasonal gains (chiefly agricultural) and a summer influx of student workers. The net result is that the woman-power pool, largest U.S. labor reserve, is showing signs of drying up. But the possibility that...