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...battalions and regiments. Unlike the 1941 exercises, this year's "little maneuvers" will have plenty of airplanes, plenty of tanks. Soldiers and officers will learn how to work up behind dive-bombers, how to cooperate with reconnaissance aviation, how to move in swiftly behind tanks. and how to plow ahead to take objectives that tanks cannot take...
Except for sugar, soon to be rationed, and fats & oils, once imported in quantity from the Far East, U.S. farmers had the food situation well in their plow-calloused hands. They were doing better than the Washington food bureaucrats. A half-dozen Government agencies were dabbling in the food problem, with well-confused results. The Agriculture Department's sugar section and Leon Henderson's Office of Price Administration, among others, played with sugar rationing. Nearly everyone had a hand in the fats & oils market: Agriculture, OPA, State Department, Board of Economic Warfare, WPB's food section, Jesse...
Then WPBoss Donald Nelson began to sweep up the mess. He gave OPA full control over sugar, offered the Agriculture Department a lone hand in fats & oils. With these two trouble spots cleared away, and the man behind the plow working as never before, the nation's prospects in the Battle of Food were looking fine...
Santa Anita may not remain idle. Possible use: a Government flying field (because of its 185 acres of paved parking lot). To prepare it for its wartime role, Santa Anita's owners mournfully made plans last week to plow under $50,000 worth of freshly planted pansies...
...best-sellers in its catalogue of 99 artists: an autumn scene with four wild ducks rising from a marsh by Watercolorist J. D. Knap and three variations on last year's best-selling themes: an angel flying over a bleak northern landscape by Rockwell Kent; a railroad snow plow and a country wagon by Chicago Illustrator Dale Nichols; a Rockefeller Center scene by Joseph Golinkin...