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...mindful of sugar production in Hawaii, Puerto Rico-and the potent domestic sugar beet lobby-has balked at giving Cuba a good break. The U.S., too, has a point. It insists that Cuba not capitalize on the war, that its quota remain fixed at the prewar...
...days after its futile searching to the south. ¶ Mined from deep in the layers of testimony was a memorandum from ex-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, written shortly before Pearl Harbor, recommending that Japan be bought off. Morgenthau was willing to lend Japan $2 billion, give her an immigration quota and "most favored nation" status, reduce U.S. naval strength in the Pacific. The memo was passed on to Secretary of State Hull who, at about the same time, dictated a statement that too many misguided people were dabbling in U.S. foreign relations...
Selective Service had failed to fill its quota, although the quota was reduced from 80,000 a month to 50,000 after V-J day. Of 100,000 youths reaching 18 each month, many were volunteering in the Navy or Marine Corps. Almost 35,000 were being deferred on account of physical disability, educational plans, proved hardships. Instead of 200,000, a more lenient Selective Service in four months had produced only 140,000 new soldiers...
Many a publisher, having sold too many Christmas ads or too many papers, barely made it to New Year's Day and the end of his newsprint quota. Once across the line he was, if not safe, at least on his own. The Civilian Production Administration last week abolished paper rationing. Newspapers must now scramble for their chunks of the four million tons of newsprint (98% of the 1941 supply) that will be available this year-if enough pulp comes out of the Canadian and Scandinavian woods...
...some 3,000,000 veterans will need homes, CPA is prepared to set up a regional quota system to parcel out priorities. But few veterans, or anyone else, thought that such priorities would solve the housing shortage. Not many veterans can afford a $10,000 house; the great need is for houses at $6,000 and under...