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...persons worked on U.S. farms on May 1-113,000 more than on the same date last year. This total included 8,399,000 members of farm families; the rest were hired men, women, children. A peak of 12,000,000 farm workers was predicted for July, 13-20% of whom might be women. The clamor about shortages arose because the labor demand grew faster than the labor supply, new hands are less able, and youngsters cannot handle the heavy machinery...
...planes flown by U.S. crews, Air Marshal Harris can increase the intensity of his raids. Though it would probably take a while to repeat often such raids as those on Cologne and Essen, an R.A.F. spokesman said last week: "A thousand planes nightly is not the ultimate peak. There is no reason why another thousand should not attack a second target in Germany at the same time, or follow the first thousand on to the same target...
...Germans were ready. Their Italian stooges were ready. So were the British and their Free French allies. Over the grey Libyan Desert the air quivered in the peak heat of the early hot season. The heat made men and machines thirstier, and the desert was stingy with water. Metal in the sun was too hot to touch. But for the moment no khamsin was blowing, no dreadful sandstorm to grind up men and machines. And it was not too hot to fight...
...week asked for 90.000 new Federal employes (and $210,000,000) to enforce his price-control and rationing program, That is about 70% as many men as there are in all the State and local police and detective forces in the country; it is more than 20 times the peak staff (in bootleg years) of Federal prohibition agents; and it amounts to one employe for every 19 retail outlets in the U.S. But-as OPA was quick to point out -it is only one-third more than the 60,000 Britain has hired to price-control and ration one-third...
...Bauff, offers some of the best rockclimbing in North America. Unlike the Rockies in this country, the Selkirks are hard rock, not shale, and will not crumble under a pick. Mt. Sir Donald, which the party hopes to climb, towers nearly 11,000 feet and is the highest peak of the range, though there are many nearly as high...