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Mutual's deliberative Raymond Gram Swing gave the most searching of all the week's radio analyses. "We have been the safest-minded people on earth," he said. "And we have indulged to the full the extravagance of underestimating our opponents....There is however one mercy in this grievous situation....Our defeat has come at the beginning....We can outproduce the Axis. And we can out-will the Axis...
...foreign aid, three routes are still open: across the dangerous North Sea to Archangel, over the Japanese-threatened Pacific to Valdivostok, and around Africa through British-controlled Persia, the last being the safest, though lougest. Professor Karpovich believes that England and the United States are still sending all the materials they can, but that the Russians have all the man power that will be needed. However, if any armed British forces should, be his patched to Russian their probably destination would be the Caucasus, so that the Soviets night concentrate then troops in the North...
...months. Two more, still abuilding, can be completed as carriers within a year. The Long Islands, which can make 17-18 knots, have room for 20 planes and are ideal for convoy duty. Unlike their big sisters, who stay far behind the fleet during combat, they will travel safest in the middle of convoys...
Some people, moreover, regard price rises as not only good business but good economics. Cornell's Professor Frank A. Pearson believes that free prices are the safest means of adjusting supply to demand even in a war economy. Last fortnight, in the Harvard Business Review, Leon Henderson and OPM Purchasing Chief Donald Nelson, in a joint article expounding Government price philosophy ("the results of our thinking thus far"), agreed that free prices were still the best medicine for some defense problems. Example: mercury, where a doubling of price has doubled production, and zinc, where a 60% price increase reopened...
...Paul Reverings apparently recorded on wax (safest way for Nazis to know exactly what a commentator will say), Chandler has sneered at ''Wee Willie Willkie," awarded to the British Empire the "Muddle Medal." to F.D.R. the "Meddle Medal," referred to the U.S. as "Uncle Sam's flophouse for European down-and-outers...