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Somebody slipped up in planning ahead for the production of heavy-duty tires. This was made plain last week as 1) the Army, which unexpectedly hiked its tire needs from 16.4 million to 26.8 million a year, found that it will get far fewer; 2) the quota for civilian truckers was cut almost 50% under ODT's "bare minimum" for the first quarter...
...Army explained that tires in service abroad are wearing out faster than expected. As heavy-tire production is already behind schedule (TIME, Aug. 21). WPB must dip into the civilian supply (many military and civilian tires are the same size). Ominously, WPB made it clear that the shortage is not temporary. To end it, WPB plans to rush construction of some $25,000,000 to $100,000,000 in new tire plants. But they will not be turning out tires for at least nine months...
...Kremlin strategy in the Polish question had been basically simple. It was: to tire out both the London Poles and the Allies by patiently insisting on a solution which the Poles could not accept. Since Russia was in possession and had the power, she could afford patience...
From Switzerland came a rumor with direct bearing on the Italian campaign. The report: burly, ex-Airman Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, sparkplug of the wily German defense, had followed in the tire-tracks of the late Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, been "very seriously" wounded by Allied planes which sent his automobile spinning axle over top near Bologna. Berlin said nothing...
...Nazis took too long to tire, General Ivan Bagramyan's army group, poised on the banks of the Niemen on Chern-yakhovsky's right flank, could help things along by a breakthrough from the north. On Chernyakhovsky's left, Colonel General Georgi Zakharov was reported by the Germans to be attacking in the Masurian Lakes region with hundreds of tanks and planes, behind a "drumfire of artillery" (the usual German phrase indicating a breakthrough assault...