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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian motorists get the equivalent of 160 U.S. gallons of gas a year, can save them up or use them when they please. Thus they avoid all bickering over pleasure driving, the employment of armies of snoopers and police, and above all, know how much gas they can count...
Regarding the next Presidential election, here is a plan that would give complete unity of action during the war and would save a lot of expense and campaigning. Let one united convention nominate Roosevelt for President and Willkie for Vice President, with the agreement that if the war ceases before the expiration of the term, Roosevelt would immediately resign, whereupon Willkie would automatically become President...
Georgie Patton would hardly recognize his Desert Training Center today. Where the first 8,000 men of his Armored Force sweated 15 months ago, rehearsing for Tunisia, today nearly 200,000 troops of all kinds, save only WACs and paratroops, are being finally hardened for the fighting in Europe and Asia. The huge oval area in southern California and western Arizona has expanded until it is now larger than England. It is the biggest Army training area...
...away from home influences, away from wives and mothers," says the D.T.C.'s boss, Major General Charles H. White. "Out here they are miles from ordinary comforts. Boys become men in a pretty short time in a place like this." There is no place to go on leave save Los Angeles, hundreds of miles away...
...maturity. But Mr. Morgenthau, breathing heavily, stuck to his old cheap-money theory, fighting the war boom as he had fought the depression. His program "to finance this war in the seven-to-ten-year range at 2%" was denounced as "stubborn amateurishness." His reason (labeled as "eyewash"): "to save this and future generations many millions of dollars on the public debt...