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...roomful of crackling wartime caricatures - tures-Axis in Agony - went on the auc tion block in Manhattan this week to boost bond sales. The drawings were the work of topnotch Commercial Artist Boris Artzybasheff, who did them originally as Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. advertise ments. Most of Caricaturist Artzybasheff's 32 imaginative, humorous, smoothly competent wash drawings show the Axis coming out second best against U.S. industrial might. In Artzybasheff's fancy: ¶A crisscross pattern of steel wire becomes a cage for three hoary, gaping primates with the faces of Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo...
...trickle of new civilian goods, was summarily choked off by the Army demands. Last week, WPB decided that the time had come to put the spot plan into full operation again. This meant that, as fast as plants finish up their war contracts, they can get into produc tion on a limited number of civilian goods...
...schools and colleges now awn some 15,000 sound-film projectors. Last week the MARCH OF TIME was distributing to them the first issues of its new Forum Edi tion. Early subjects: Brazil, Texas, Future Airways. Adapted from regular M.O.T. productions, the eight monthly issues of the Forum Edition rent for $20 a year...
...other creditor nations. The Bank is merely a second pot in which the whole world puts chips to guarantee the lenders against loss. In ordinary opera tion the Bank will guarantee loans floated privately. It also has power to take part of a loan too big for private markets, and to make direct loans on a relatively small scale if they cannot be floated privately...
...optimistic judgments of the invasion,, which were based on the relative ease with which all but one of the scheduled landings were accomplished, the low casualties, the slow ness of German reaction, the virtual absence of the Luftwaffe. Now, as the fight ing progressed, there was still no indica tion that casualties were becoming prohibitive. But there was every indication that the rate must be increasing...