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...horses and mules, more than 1,500 tons of gear. Now it was time again to pick up the Sixth, which claims to be "the most airborne army in the world." It was a bigger job than ever: at Chikiang the Sixth had been swollen to more than 33,000 men. The Tenth Air Force's 443rd Troop Carrier Group loaded 45 to 50 of the men into each of its C-46s, flew them over central China's great blue lakes to reoccupy Nanking, where Japan's puppets had reigned. It was all done...
They also hope that U.S. companies may now get exploratory concessions in India, Trinidad and many other parts of the British Empire from which they have been barred. Most of all, oilmen hope that if the swollen wartime oil production causes the expected world surplus in petroleum, they will be able to cure it in other ways than by price-cutting each other's throats...
Eastern Europe's roads were already flooded with the harried, homeless & hungry when, last week, another vast tide was unloosed into the swollen streams. Winter would bring history's greatest migration. Millions of Germans and many of their masters prayed that it would be a mild winter...
...nation wondered how deep and how serious an economic wound would come from sharp cutbacks in war production , Washington made hasty plans and emergency estimates. The most hopeful guess of Government economists was that the worst might be over in six months. In those six months the war-swollen U.S. economy would suffer hard bumps...
...Open Door. But two factors worked against Josephine Roche from the start: 1) wobbly R.M.F.'s swollen bonded indebtedness of $3,971,000, floated in 1913; 2) cheap natural gas from Texas...