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When WPB blacked out the auto industry after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had only about 500,000 new cars on hand, a two-month peacetime supply. This looked like the tightest shortage of all, so OPA stopped all sales for January and February, allowed only 40,000 cars for each of the next three months. But last week OPA released the April sales figures and proved an astounding fact: even if new cars were twice as hard to get, there would be no serious shortage except, of all places, in Detroit, where new-rich defense workers boosted sales over...
...other Harvard divot-diggers, Pote Macgowan, Henry Shepley (moved up to number two), Bill Allis, Art Tarlow, and Don Davis took their contests by convincing margins. The tightest battle ending on the fifteenth green. The Tuckerman-Allis duo finished all even with their opponents, to account for the half-point in the summary...
Singapore censorship, long the tightest encountered by correspondents on any British front, reached a new high in hush last week. CBS's celebrated radio reporter, Cecil Brown (TIME, Dec. 22), had been "disaccredited" as a broadcaster by the British authorities at Singapore...
...game between the Puritans and the Bunnies was one of the tightest defensive games of the season as the low score of 13 to 8 indicates...
Czecrio-Slovalda, tucked away in the core of Hitler's Empire, is probably the tightest-sealed source of continental news. For months fires, slowdowns, mismanagement and active destruction have cost the Nazis precious marks, materials and time. Railway sabotage has cost them lives...