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...steel. It is not as strong as the same weight of an aluminum-base alloy (using .5% magnesium and 95% aluminum, making duralumin). Consequently airplane parts, where strength is important, are principally made of aluminum-base alloys, and Dowmetal is used primarily for engine castings, doors, hatches, floors, seats, brake assemblies, etc. Aluminum is usually used with some percentage of magnesium-partly for greater strength and partly because magnesium makes aluminum easier to work. Wherever strength is not essential the lighter magnesium gets the call...
...Nazis. Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo even has a German wife. However, the new cabinet has not committed itself to a definite program but will probably watch developments in Eastern Russia very carefully. The last vestige of any friends-with-the-U.S. sentiment has disappeared with Konoye, the brake is off, and the road has been cleared for a drive on Vladivostok, Singapore, or the Dutch East Indies. The streamlined Tojo cabinet is designed to eliminate those precious moments of discussion between the soldiery and the government which always prevent immediate action when the opportunity arises...
...starting Crimson line-up will probably be Captain Jack Pension in the goal; fullbacks Bob Harrison and Hole Taylor or Killam, at the halves Truscoll, Mycrson, and Slingerland, outsides Herkovitz and Poor, insides Neff and Brake, and Sawbill at center forward...
...Honolulu went mica tape, samples of rayon, gold-plated watch bands, wedding-announcement cards, a tube of radioactive phosphorus, brake cable, auto gears...
Painful as it may be to taxpayers, the 1941 bill falls short of providing an effective brake on inflation. It will bring the Treasury some $13,000,000.000 in all. The Government will spend at least $22,000,000,000 in fiscal 1942-maybe a lot more. To preserve the Treasury's hoped-for ratio of 2-to-1 between money raised by taxation and money borrowed, revenues would have to be nearer...