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...Hollywood, Paramount studios decided to do a picture titled Women of Aberdeen, glorifying the lives of dusty women workers at Maryland's explosive Army ordnance proving ground, chose for its star diminutive, peach-sundae-cheeked Cinemacutie Susan Hayward...
...ordnance office can sign contracts up to $5,000,000 (and any number of them) without GHQ approval, the 13 chiefs can mobilize a lot of idle plants if they want to. Not planes and tanks, but the hundreds of supply items needed for Army arsenals, armories and the Aberdeen Proving Ground make up most of their orders. The new scheme is designed less to promote subcontracting than to find more and smaller prime contractors for these simpler products. But in the course of meeting and coaching the little men in its district, each civilian ordnance staff can help...
...asserts that Aniline's war output is pretty standardized and can be kept going by second-string men. Anyway, the Treasury would rather wreck the company than take further chances. Some things made Treasury's hair curl: movies of secret tests of new, experimental U.S. tanks at Aberdeen, Md. were developed by three German aliens employed in the Agfa Ansco plant; Ozalid division employes, many of them German-born, thoroughly inspected defense plants before installing blueprint processes, frequently went back to service the equipment. If no accidents or sabotage had occurred, it was not from lack of opportunity...
...Olongapo near Manila; the British had heavily reinforced Rangoon with British and Indian troops of all arms and services. In Bangkok, capital of little Thailand, tension was drumhead-tight in the place that might be the Belgium of a Far East war. The British attitude, as broadcast by Aberdeen Economist Lindley Macnaghten Fraser this week: "If the Japanese regard the present moment as appropriate for a tremendous act of national harakiri, we in the British Empire will cooperate without limit...
...plant every week come 24 sets of the 33 steel plates that make a 30-ton tank. Nearby, the Wilkes-Barre Carriage Co., also Empire-owned, makes gun mounts, inserts recoils, ships them back to the Schuylkill. From there the finished 755 go to the U.S. Army's Aberdeen testing ground. They are all British orders, but since Lend-Lease the Army tests them. From Aberdeen, says Frank Cohen proudly, Empire has never had a reject...