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...feminine topics of ruffles and steatopygia, a slim, unruffled expert made sense last week. Said Mrs. Mary Brewster White, OWI's expert on womanpower, to 300 clothes-conscious fashion editors and designers: "If there must be pants ... let them be designed so that they do not dishearten 'she who doubles any measurement that Venus can offer.' . . . [As] for ruffles . . . they have no place in wartime...
...Before 1950," said an OWI report on air transport this week, "the United States may well have half a million private, commercial and military planes in active service." The report added that "this may seem like a lot" (it is 1,152 times the peak number of planes that all U.S. air lines operated at home and abroad before the war). Other OWI statistics on air transport...
...OWI took a hard crack at "extravagant" claims that any number of planes could absorb most of the land & sea transport business after the war. OWI argued sensibly that the more planes there are the more ships, trucks and railroad cars will be needed to fuel and supply them. According to Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles I. Stanton, more than two 10,000-ton tanker loads of gasoline would be needed to refuel enough Clipper trips from New York to England to carry the cargo that one 10,000-ton freighter could take across in a single voyage...
...reported the OWI in a survey last week. Other findings: servicemen want letters 1) cheerful, 2) often...
...year at Harvard University, at full pay, to study anything they wish except journalism (66 have won Fellowships since they were inaugurated in 1938). Of the past year's 16 Fellows, seven had dropped out before the school year's end -one was drafted, two joined OWI, four were recalled to their jobs because of manpower shortages. Last week, after pondering whether to suspend for the duration, Harvard decided: Nieman Fellowships will be maintained on a restricted basis. Only newspapermen who are 1) reasonably draft-proof and who 2) want to bone up on postwar problems (economic, political...