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Even discounting some of these Russian claims, the booty captured by the Reds was obviously enormous. Booty and prisoners are the evidence that a drive has not merely captured territory but played havoc with the enemy's army. With 'sev eral compartments of the Ukraine still only partly flooded, the possibility of more booty and prisoners was still promising...
...Henderson to let 100,000 tons of cheap Latin-American copper into the U. S. this year (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week from the Defense Advisory Commission came reports of a new study of copper demand based on the fabricating mills running on Knudsen schedule - three shifts a day, sev en days a week. On the basis of the U. S.'s using Latin America's capacity output (perhaps 600,000 tons a year), it estimated that the U. S. would still have a copper shortage of 300-350,000 tons a year, raised the question...
...around the President are sev eral groups, reflecting the uses he has for them, and his personal liking. Those who attract his mind are usually those who fight a brilliant kind of intellectual guerrilla warfare which their opponents call outright unscrupulous. All are New Dealers to the core-which perhaps explains Mr. Roosevelt's refusal up to now to surrender one jot of the New Deal in the interest of Defense. Yet, Harry Hopkins again excepted, the President's warm, confiding friendliness is reserved for men who are comfortably conservative, cautious, even stodgy by the standards...
Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later a squadron of Messerschmitt pursuit ships came up. For an exciting half-hour the British were under fire by turns from above and below...
...writer, who signed himself "W. R. Slack," grudgingly came across with a few facts. The college is "now celebrating its hundredth year of sev- teachers for their immediate tasks in the classroom...