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...Canada's problem was to get maximum use of her $1,000,000,000, 103-field air-training plant, which Franklin Roosevelt called the "airdrome of democracy." The R.C.A.F. had dug thousands deep into Canada's manpower reservoir, was reaching the point where the annual crop of air-crew prospects might soon fall below training facilities. R.C.A.F. recruits from the U.S., now being repatriated, had represented from 10% to 20% of R.C.A.F. trainees...
Solution of a war inflation by severe taxation of the low-income groups would be a grave error. To begin with, it would tend to place an unfair proportion of the burden on this group, and furthermore it would prevent the building up of that large reservoir of purchasing power which is so essential to a healthy industrial economy after the war. Compulsory saving is clearly the method that should be used, for it not only solves the present problem of inflation but the post-war problem of purchasing power as well. If the great mass of the people emerge...
Then Federal officials gradually began to see that private flyers might be a reservoir of future military pilot power. In December 1938, President Roosevelt approved a Federal program presented by the Civil Aeronautics Authority: at Government cost 300 college undergraduates would train in aviation fundamentals...
...troubles. CAA still harries it with regulations. But CAP is definitely an Army Auxiliary, the pilot reservoir its proponents always said it would be. Members become Air Corps instructors at Air Force schools, ferry military planes from factories to tactical and training bases...
...barflies bandied the story of a film writer who bought five complete sets of tires. Month ago police nabbed tire dealer Guy O. Bryan, were flabbergasted when he freely admitted selling $28,000 worth of new tires since Pearl Harbor. Gloomed an OPA official: "There is an uncontrolled reservoir of new tires supplying the bootleg market...