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He played on the themes of New Deal "defeatism" and quarreling. "When one agency fails, the New Deal just piles another on, and we pay for both. . . . Right in the final crisis of this war . . . the War Production Board fell apart before our eyes. This is also the Board in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afraid of Peace? | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

The troop commander told the sergeant, the troop recorder, to be ready to burn his papers. One of the lieutenants looked over at the sergeant, quietly sorting documents into two piles on a table, and said: "It will be the first time this C.P. ever pulled out of any place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: DUSK IN THE RHONE VALLEY | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

The Vancouver Daily Province reported that "fires burn day and night" on the dump piles at Dawson Creek, B.C. A farmer said that he had seen more than 100 good stoves thrown on one dump. A woman in Whitehorse wrote to her father: "I saw ... a barracks between two and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: Scrap | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Even now, with materials piled up every where, and only China, which is a logistics problem, not supplied to the point of oversupply, the Services insist on building the piles ever higher. Both Services could probably cut back many production pro grams even farther than they have. But both fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSITION: Washington War | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

Get Back or Else. Charlie Wilson's hankering to beat his Government swords into electric plowshares was typical. Many businessmen-in-service, sick of Washington and full of nostalgia for businesslike operations, have fled the capital for their old jobs. Fortnight ago WPB's Deputy Vice Chairman for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSITION: Exodus Before X-Day | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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