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Fortnight ago the House, led by Republicans and prodded by the Scripps-Howard press, cut OWI's appropriation from $42,000,000 to $18,000,000 - a slash which would just about end OWI's activities in Europe and at home. But last week, as the Senate Appropriations Com mittee pondered this action,-a galaxy of stars swooped to OWI's rescue...
...clamp closed on a dozen districts. Then suddenly the Russians seemed to be everywhere at once on the south. Cavalrymen from Siberia, Cossacks from the Don raced west behind the armored thrusts, galloped into woods to slash out German gunners-and the Germans touched off fuel to set the woods ablaze. Soon shells fell on Tempelhof airdrome. Berlin was three-quarters encircled...
...some U.S. businessmen, a taste of V-E day came unexpectedly last week. It arrived in the form of a wire from the Army Air Forces ordering an overall 15% slash in plane production. Reason: the Army has almost enough Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers to finish off Germany, will go into the stepped-up war against Japan with a new line of both bombers and fighters (see U.S. AT WAR). If the cutback goes through as planned, it will be the first actual downturn in the plane program since the war began...
...Cotton Textile Institute trumpeted the charge that the order would slash cotton-mill profits by some $300 million a year. OPA's Chester Bowles angrily replied that such a charge was "fantastic." The price boss, patently worried about the runaway textile market, estimated that mill profits at the beginning of 1945 were running at the rate of about $365 million a year (v. $28 million a year average in 1936-1939). He said that his fight for lower textile prices would lop a mere $40 million off these lush earnings...
...Into the valley of Death ... no, no, no! You'll have to wait for the official communique before you mension where the figting is takeing place. You could mension there was patrol activity in certin areas, but you're not allowed to state the actuel place.' (Slash...