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...Sunday, the day before Christmas, OPA sprang its little surprise. By the time most housewives could get to the grocery store, their outstanding red and blue stamps would be worthless. Across the U.S. last week, the reaction was swift...
...double-barreled blast at sport by War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes (TIME Jan. 1) reaped a hectic harvest. His order padlocking U.S. race tracks produced a multitude of moans from horse-folk, but mightier still was the chorus of questions that sprang from all kinds of sport fans all over the nation: did re-examination of 4-F athletes indicate the near-end of every sport, especially big-league baseball...
...crisis was well illustrated by what had happened in the tiny town of Rosemount, near Minneapolis. There, in the expanding days of 1942, the 21,000-acre Gopher Ordnance Works-a typical example of the cornfield-to-factory projects which sprang up all over the U.S.-was built to manufacture powder...
...crisis was well illustrated by what had happened in the tiny town of Rosemont, near Minneapolis. There, in the expanding days of 1942, the 21,000-acre Gopher Ordnance Works-a typical example of the cornfield-to-factory projects which sprang up all over the U.S.-was built to manufacture powder. Then, for almost two years, the plant stood idle; and finally, last February, workmen began to dismantle its machinery...
...free press sprang up. Most Guatemalans joined labor "guilds," exacted living wages for the first time. Tight Ubico monopolies were broken up. Pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Carlos Salazar was forced into retirement. The Government at last expropriated German-owned coffee plantations. Refugees returned. The Presidential campaign got under...