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...phrase for this control. Manufacturer Reeves, many another in his spot understood precisely what the phrase meant. For him, it meant that his aluminum supplier (Alcoa) now had to send its order books to Washington once a month. Somebody in OPM would carefully scan those books, allot to each would-be buyer one of a series of preference ratings. If Mr. Reeves by some miracle were rated AA, his aluminum would be shipped posthaste. But top ratings were reserved for such MUST customers as aircraft manufacturers. Other ratings ran all the way down to A10, and Mr. Reeves presumably...
Rent. Since the U. S. can allot a conscript's pay for rent of his dependents, most real-estaters see only the rosy side of the draft picture-many pre-conscription marriages. But if a rent payer is drafted, a War Department bill now in Congress says his dependents cannot be evicted (if his rent is $80 monthly, or less) for at least three months...
...Hercules and Du Pont contracts were only a start. Before this empty breech of U. S. defense is properly loaded, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, Army Chief of Ordnance, has many an other contract to allot. Congress has already appropriated and authorized $244,000,000, is now ready to lay out $700,000,000 more for powder plants, for great factories where smokeless and high explosive will be loaded into small-arms ammunition (pistol, rifle, machine gun), aerial bombs, artillery shells. The Army has laid out plans for building 33 plants in five U. S. areas, has specified that...
...that Poland saw the light and began to plan at Gdynia, 13 miles northwest, a new port. Poland knows that an occupation of Danzig would give Germany a stranglehold on Gdynia. To keep Danzig alive (the city always depended on the Polish hinterland for its business) Poland continues to allot almost half her sea cargo to the Free City. Last year Gdynia handled 8,173,400 cargo tons, incoming and outgoing, almost twice as much as New Orleans handled; Danzig's share was 7,127,200 tons...
...extending a defensive half-circle from Alaska to Guam to Samoa around the Navy's present westernmost major stronghold at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, these would include a new base in the Caribbean at Puerto Rico, expansion of aviation facilities at Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla. Companion Army measures would allot $62,000,000 to strengthen Panama Canal defenses, supplement naval bases in the Atlantic and Pacific with Army personnel and equipment...