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...third reason why we must declare a moratorium is that all these orders have swamped our subscription staff. TIME'S Circulation Office in Chicago is right in the heart of the tightest manpower shortage area in the country. And with so many war plants around us we cannot go out and bid for all the workers we would need to handle this winter's subscription volume with anything like the speed and efficiency with which we have always tried to enter TIME'S subscriptions...
Meat rationing ended in Canada last week. Surprisingly, there was no rush for butcher shops, no frenzied buying. In some cities, meat sales actually fell off. Canadians who did buy mostly wanted ham and bacon, the meats on which restrictions had been tightest...
Japanese postal and press censorship ranks with the world's tightest; outsiders usually hear only what Nippon wants them to hear. But to the U.S. last week, through secret channels, came a rare, uncensored letter from Japan...
...still the war's tightest secret. But this much is certain: it will be the earliest day on which 1) the problems of logistics and planning have been licked; 2) all-important weather is friendly. Quite possibly, it may be a day among the next...
...picture was painted coal black. In the Middle West, demand is up nearly 20%; stockpiles down. In the Far West, manpower shortages have almost eliminated supplies of wood and sawdust; the demand for coal has nearly doubled, in hard-coal-burning New England, the pinch is tightest; anthracite mines are short 22,000 tons a day on projected schedules for this year...