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...Germans of all the time that they now hope to gain by resistance in northern Italy and Yugoslavia. For, with a free entry through Turkey, the Allies could establish a front in Bulgaria, attack the Rumanian hinge of the inner fortress, deprive the Germans of Ploesti's oil, threaten their armies in southern Russia from the rear...
...Franklin Roosevelt must revise his whole cost-of-living strategy. For last week A.F. of L.'s William Green and C.I.O.'s Phil Murray, who have held labor in line with the Little Steel formula, marched to the White House to threaten mutiny unless prices went down. This was a very interesting piece of byplay, for everyone guessed that while the two labor leaders talked tough on the front steps, to impress their members, they were probably much less belligerent inside, imploring the President to hold prices level, rather than threatening him if he did not roll prices...
...these were indeed the German plans they were plans of despair when they were conceived. Now, as never before, the Russians threaten the citadel from the east (see col. 2). The Allies move upon it, though slowly, by land and by air from the west and the south. In the end, inner Europe cannot be a citadel for the Germans. It can only be a trap...
Dodd's hardest job used to be getting directors to take his advice. Once a director wanted the wedding guests to cap the ceremony by singing I Ain't Gonna Sin No More. Dodd had to threaten to walk off the lot if the director persisted. But those were the early days. Now directors more readily bow to Dodd...
...spoke Sir Arthur Salter, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport: "There have been two periods in this war when the shipping situation was so serious as to threaten the whole issue of the war. Twice the balance was restored, and, to use a transatlantic phrase, twice we have got out from the red by the efforts of the United States of America...