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...Lend-Lease were received in London with cheers, tempered with the sober realization that the British bankroll is no longer fat enough to purchase in the open market all the raw materials she will need. By combing the lining of her moneybags Britain might be able to scrape together enough money to pay cash for the first few consignments of raw materials her factories must have...
...another, the enemy had managed to scrape up a surprising amount of air power for the Philippines. That, in turn, may well have slowed down U.S. Navy plans by forcing the fleet to keep extra carrier-based planes in the area; last week a carrier task force was back at the old job of beating up airfields around Manila, smashing shipping in the harbor. In one operation around Luzon, Admiral Halsey's flyers sank 20 Jap ships, shot down 72 planes...
Most of the German strength in the west is now committed to the fighting lines. The longer the blow is delayed, the longer Hitler will have to scrape up and train his ersatz divisions, to toughen his defenses in depth. On the other hand, a real breakthrough might tear the present front hopelessly open, might furnish the momentum for the knockout wallop in the west...
...will certainly not interest those who regard the United States as a some what impoverished gold mine out of which they can still scrape a nugget or two for themselves, It will interest only those who think of the United States as their land - a land they know and love - a land that became rich through the industry, thrift, and enterprise of its people, and will never regain its prosperity in any other...
...long Russo-German line hardly budged. The Germans boasted that they had "stabilized" the line between the Carpathians and the Gulf of Finland, and they were in fact holding firm in front of Warsaw and East Prussia. They were clearly throwing into this theater any reinforcements they could scrape up from anywhere. Nothing more had been heard of the gap which, three weeks ago, the Germans claimed they had blasted through the Russian corridor on the Gulf of Riga (TIME, Aug. 28). If the Germans were retiring troops from Estonia and Latvia through this gap, they did not want...