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...sorest problem of the tractor program is absenteeism in tractor and tractor-part factories. The workers, who think of their product as something that crawls around cornfields, do not realize how vitally it is needed at the front. Now top Army expediters are out, telling the men, in a tone of real desperation, that "there is no other industry whose men are so directly contributing to the actual war effort...
...mere plants will not do it. The Army must convince U.S. workers that the tractor, while not as glamorous as a P-47, is even more essential in many areas. Sorest pressed is the South Pacific, where each island hop forward means not only virtual abandonment of rear bases, but a huge new construction job. In effect, the U.S. will cross the Pacific at the speed of a tractor...
...last year. The 1943 grain harvest in Europe was good, and the Nazis meant every word of their boast that Germany would eat if all Europe had to starve. The German bread ration was recently increased. Yet the black market continues to flourish. One of Germany's sorest shortages is in housing. Nazi figures admit that 6,953,000 people (about 9% of the prewar population) have been bombed out or evacuated. Labor Chief Robert Ley said last week that bombs had destroyed 2,000,000 rooms in homes. The solutions so far found have been dismally inadequate. Resettled...
Troops on the Trains. The American correspondents found that optimists place the pro-Ally sentiment in "Swedes at 95%, and pessimists seldom drop the percentage below 90%. The correspondents also put their finger on the sorest spot in Sweden-the transport of Nazi troops over Swedish railways to Norway...
Last week, when ex-Miner Bevan stood up in the House to talk about coal, he went as accurately and painfully as a dentist's drill to the sorest spot in the British Government's war-labor policy...