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...last eight months of 1945, munitions production will run at an annual rate of $54 billion-more than 90% of the peak rate of 1944 and almost the rate...
Reported Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, U.S. Atlantic Fleet commander: since 1941 the U.S. sub hunt had covered 30,000,000 square miles of ocean to fight a maximum German fleet of 450 submarines. The German attack peak was in 1942-43, but by spring of 1943 the defense had its fo'c'sle head above water. By V-E day the U.S. had 126 sure submarine kills and had escorted 16,760 ships across the Atlantic...
This week, thanks mainly to the slugging of moody Phil Weintraub, big-beaked Ernie Lombardi and stumpy Manager Mel Ott (total ages no years), the Giants strutted at the top of the National League ladder with a won-lost count of 21-to-6. The veteran trio reached its peak of efficiency with a homer apiece in a single inning while copping four straight from the Chicago Cubs. Other reasons for cheer in the Giants camp: the unbeatable pitching of Bill Voiselle (8-0), the fine shortstopping of Buddy Kerr, the .347 hitting of Napoleon Reyes...
...Much. On May 1 U.S. warehouses bulged with 11,000,000 bales of cotton (an increase of 705,000 bales in a year), equal to about two years' supply of cotton. Meanwhile cotton consumption by U.S. mills continued to slide from its peak. (The mills used 769,678 bales during April v. 857,693 bales a year ago.) Yet by the peculiar nonsense called parity, prices for raw cotton climbed to 23? a pound-a new high for the last 15 years...
...Peak. U.S. manufacturers set a new record when they delivered $14.2 billion of products during March-up 5% from March a year ago. Largest gains were in shipments -of foodstuffs, chemicals and petroleum...