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...Prices. The Federal Government prepared to taper off its $1.8 billion a year program for wartime food subsidies. By next June all payments are due to end, including the whopping $534 million to dairy farmers and the modest $7.4 million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...
...expects that military buying will taper off and hoarding ease after Germany quits. Said he: "A month after V-E day the present pinch in cigarets will be over...
...rate of loss on missions runs around 0.3%, lowest in the theater. Early this month it set a record of 1,500 sorties by individual planes, without a loss. The Air Forces top command, which had expected to taper off production, this week let the Glenn L. Martin Co. announce that B-26 contracts were being increased, instead...
...might plead that most Air Forces cadets are little more than little boys. But the boyishness, which merely prettifies the first half of Winged Victory, somewhat falsifies the second half. Far from toughening Playwright Hart's flyers, actual war makes them almost more tender. The later scenes taper off anyhow, like postscripts in a cruder scrawl. Playwright Hart's real play is the training of a cadet. That story is not only vivid and self-contained, but it is one that Moss Hart watched with his own eyes...
...Battle's biggest casualty among weapons is the tank, whose decline has already been noted (TIME, March 29). One plant recently laid off 9,000 workers. The U.S. Army has ordered manufacture of M-3 light tanks to taper off, eventually to stop. Manufacture of the M-7 (light-medium) tank-an Armored Forces bad guess-has already stopped. Production of new M-5 light tanks will be increased, but gradually. Medium tank production is being slowed...