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...Willie I. Bass, North Carolina overseer of the church. Tomlinson and Bass, who favor righteousness and peace, hope to get on the ballot in 30 states, but admit that New York looks like the only sure bet. They plan to stage a five-day peace conference this month at Childersburg, Ala., the feature of which will be the beating of swords into plowshares. From a blacksmith, Bishop Tomlinson recently took lessons in sword-into-plowshare-beating and has been practising the art regularly in his Queens Village, N.Y. home...
Dispensable. In Childersburg,Ala., J.A. Emerson got a job handling draft deferments of indispensable factory workers. Two days later he was drafted...
Another new plant at Charlestown, Ind. (capacity 600,000 Ib. daily) is well ahead of schedule, will go into production, operated by Du Pont, in April. And the third, at Childersburg, Ala., will be ready to turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 300,000 Ib. by midsummer. No matter what unforeseen delays might do later, one critical bottleneck was cracked, would soon break. By autumn, the Army and Navy would have a wartime powder supply...
...contract signed last week calls for a loading station adjacent to the Government's Du Pont-built smokeless powder plant in Childersburg, Ala. (TIME, Feb. 17). Through a wholly-owned subsidiary (Brecon Loading Co.) set up overnight, Coca-Cola will spend $1,091,000 on equipment, use the rest for operating expenses. As for profits, Chairman of the Board Robert Winship Woodruff (whose experience with gunpowder has hitherto been confined to his notable quick-triggery in the hunting field) explained: "We don't expect to make any money...
...Childersburg's Mayor H. D. Wilson, alarmed by prosperity's prospective effect-on his village's housing, water, sewage and traffic problems, appealed to Governor Frank Dixon for help. Said he: "Our resources are totally inadequate. ... If we aren't prepared for it, this thing can ruin us instead of helping...