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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trips have brought no revolutionary changes in production; but in an hour's visit he finds a dozen ways to save precious time and critical materials. Typical Knudsen touches...
...Taylor calls himself Cowboy Taylor. Idaho never was much of a cowboy State, but it has a cowboy cult. Cowboy Taylor rides from town to town on horseback (rumor has it that he motors over the lonely stretches where voters cannot see him). He rides, says he patriotically, to save tires...
...Commons last week, Minister Hudson might have sounded gratified. Instead, he sounded urgent. Wheat acreage must be expanded by another 600,000 acres, said he. There must be a 10% increase in the potato crop, more milk. There must be farming by moonlight to get the job done. To save ships, Britain's green earth would have to provide more food for the factory canteens, more food for Allied mess plates...
...Moscow, Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News, cabled last week: "A second front any time after August will be very late, if not too late. . . . In the opinion of the best qualified foreign military observers in Russia,* if a second front does not come in time to save the Caucasus, the war will be prolonged from one to three years...
Meanwhile copper continues so scarce that even the Army last week recognized the shortage, let WPB order curtailment of uniform insignia production in order to save perhaps 300 tons of copper a year (just over 1/100th of 1% of the U.S.'s expected copper supply this year...