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SAUCERS —THE REAL STORY: U.S. BUILT
...August the Army took in about 45,000 volunteers-some 15,000 over its monthly quota. As a result-and until more training camps could be readied—the Army cut its first draft calls down to 10,000 for November and will probably call about 20,000 in December. As of Sept. 1, there were 1,504,357 men in the armed forces (the goal...
...Philadelphia, for Budd Manufacturing Co.—biggest U.S. builder of stainless-steel trains—the Government began to run up a vast plant which by next spring will be turning out all-steel air freighters, big-bellied and wide-hatched to carry troops, tanks, guns to the war's four quarters...
...tons. Plate has been and still is the worst bottleneck in the industry, for nearly 75% of the steel needed for ships is plate. > But many a layman overestimates the amount of steel needed in shipbuilding. A 10,000-ton vessel actually weighs about 4,000 tons—the 10,000-ton figure is its carrying capacity. The 8,000,000 tons of merchant shipping the U.S. hopes to build this year will take up less than 3,500,000 tons of ingot capacity...
Ideers. With biological maturity, Teddy developed the only idea he ever had—the idea that all "ideers" are pernicious "Character" and "deeds," he decided, have nothing in common with ideas. The one sure way to exorcise intelligence is to shout the word "Bawls!" Teddy Tewler had reached complete Tewlerhood...