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Satisfied WPB. Out of the huddle of conferences and the welter of staggering facts leaked one shocker: the Kaiser-Hughes plane, the largest ever built, will carry 700 soldiers fully equipped. Or it could evacuate 550 wounded...
...index 36 points to 243 (1935-39 average equals 100). The present statistical results: 1) U.S. industrial volume is 2.4 times, instead of merely twice, that of peace years; 2) more than 70% of U.S. industrial production, instead of some 65%, is in war goods. (This was a shocker to some experts who had figured the civilian rock-bottom as 35% of all production...
Annette Kellerman, shapely shocker of yesteryear, one-piece bathing-suit pioneer: now 55, trouping for the Australian Red Cross. From Sydney she wrote to show business' trade paper Variety: "I've been booked solid for three years on the V. S. Circuit [Voluntary Service-Red Cross theatrical unit]. We don't even get doughnuts ... [I am] writing my own show, words & music...
...first clear picture of how completely the men of Vichy dominated North Africa, of how the American flag flew near concentration camps. To a nation still shuddering at the appointment of onetime collaborator Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria (TIME, Feb. 1), the facts came as a final shocker...
Painfully aware of the grocery runs started by other rationing announcements, Information Director Elmer Davis prefaced Claude Wickard's shocker with an explanation and a plea. Everybody knew that it would be better to keep rationing plans secret until they were ready to be enforced, said he. But this program had to be explained to hundreds of thousands of grocers and to 1,500,000 Office of Price Administration volunteers; "partial and mistaken stones" of the plans were bound to get around; "it seemed best to tell the people tonight what is intended...