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Manganese & Chrome. The problem, however, was not quite that simple. Neither was it quite as acute as it might have seemed at first glance. Actually, only five -not 60-Russian ships had sailed from New York since Jan. 1; only 13 had sailed from all U.S. ports. Russia had all but ceased to use her shipping route between Vladivostok and Puget Sound...
Moreover, Russia was shipping the U.S. war materiel too. While all U.S. imports from Eastern Europe totaled only $153 million, they included 25% of the manganese and 29% of the chrome used in the U.S. Russia had also sent platinum, diamonds, iridium, osmium and palladium...
...Trumanite: "Why don'tcha go home?" The meeting was rapidly getting out of hand when Hollywood's Frank Scully, one-legged author of Fun in Bed, onetime candidate for the California assembly (his slogan: "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully"), took the floor. Supporting himself on chrome-plated crutches, he began an oil-on-the-waters speech. "Let's not divide ourselves to the point where we're zero," he said. "We're damn near that...
...UNRRA before U.S. contributions were stopped for Europe in March. By midsummer, both Lend-Lease and UNRRA exports had all but stopped. The bulk of Russia's purchases had been made in the free American market;* in return, the U.S. had got such needed imports as manganese and chrome, such luxuries as sables and Persian lamb...
...commonplace that is worth examining. The incident of a rare species of bird nesting in a small English village offers camera and actors an appropriate chance to reproduce quiet, minutely-scaled rural life pretty much as it exists. No one is seduced or murdered on a chrome-plated village green, and what action does occur has the look and sound of reality...