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Sensitive to the grinding strain of the nation's economy, the Cabinet that had sponsored the negotiations hoped desperately that the U.S. might grant Japan an eleventh-hour reprieve. Squeezed now by the Allied embargo on scrap iron and iron ore (she imports two-thirds of her steel industry's raw materials), and on oil (she imports 93% of her oil), Japan also faced an extraordinarily poor rice harvest, a subnormal fishing catch...
...aluminum, the new tonnage may remain on paper indefinitely. In the two and a half months since OPM approved a 6,500,000-ton pig-iron expansion, Businessman Jesse Jones, tortured by post-war overcapacity nightmares, has signed up for barely half of that tonnage. With the scrap-iron shortage worse than ever,† he will have to finance a lot more pig iron, too, to support 99,000,000 tons of steel ingots...
...army had been backed up against the Red River it had so dashingly crossed. Its flanks had been turned, many of its bridges to safety destroyed, its Armored Force's gasoline supplies captured in an old-fashioned cavalry raid. It was, so soldiers said, glad to start another scrap this week (with all last week's mistakes and losses canceled) to get its reputation back...
...month before they lined up, 50 miles apart, for the Battle of Louisiana, the soldiers of the two armies had been put through smaller-scale field maneuvers. They were in good training. Newsmen noted their endurance, their cheerful disregard of stream and swamp as they marched into position, their scrap and determination when the fight was on. Ben Lear's Red Army was given the northern position. Numerically inferior to the Blues (125,000 to 215,000), it had the advantage of the better position (close to the Red River) and the powerful punch of the First Corps...
This collection of Grade A scrap steel, according to the Germans, is all that is left of a British tank force after a recent skirmish near the border between Libya and Egypt. The Germans were confidently preparing last week to add to their collection of junked British weapons. In reconnaissance-in-force across the Egyptian border, they drove two fairly strong tank columns into British forward positions to feel out strength, then withdrew them quickly. British strength in the Western Desert has grown greatly during the summer, and the British hope there will be no more landscapes like the above...