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Toughness May Be Needed. The Prime Minister's easygoing affability has stood him in good stead with the Allies so far, but toughness may be needed in the future. Turkey had trumps to play in her neutrality. She had chrome to offer Germany (enough to make up Germany's deficit) when pressure was put on from Berlin. She had chrome to offer the U.S. and Britain when they put the heat on (the U.S. is now receiving all the chrome that Germany is not). She could insist, and rightly, that her neutrality was protecting Britain's flank...
...with an occasional wistful glance backward at the happy fun we've had in these parts and the gang joys of an NTS, we pursue the pressing activities of the hour: places of artistic, marine, and Early American flavor, neglected in past weeks for studies in modern leather and-chrome interiors, must be visited; white suits must be retrieved from the shambles of the fitting room; that last carton of cigarettes to last through leave (if any) must be ordered from Ship's Service and paid for on the spot; once again those Pullman and airline reservations must be checked...
...slogan was Lucky's way of saying that there would no longer be enough chrome green ( a derivative of bichromate) to make green ink. But WPB, which lifted restrictions on chromium last September after originally cutting its commercial use, denied that there was any special war purpose for chrome green. There were rumors that Lucky Strike, which sold more cigarets (59,500,000,000) last year than any other U.S. tobacco company, wanted a white package to compete with Chesterfield for the female trade. There was no question, at any rate, but that white packages were cheaper to produce...
...sell some to Russia'. She has acquired iron in Kcjrea, Indo-China, Malaya and the Philippines-enough for an annual steel production of something less than 8,000,000 tons; coal in Korea and China; lead and zinc in Burma; bauxite in Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies; chrome in the Philippines; antimony in China. Her facilities for processing these metals are not altogether satisfactory. She can count on rice from Burma, Thailand, Formosa; sugar from the Philippines and Netherlands Indies; soybeans from China. Lumber, especially for shipping, worries her a little. For the time being, she is well...
Anti-Sectarian. In St. Louis, Andrew Thomas Stevenson sued for divorce, complaining that his wife refused to feed him any white bread, white sugar, or meat because it violated the Scientific Order of Spectro-Chrome Metrists' rules based on "solar, lunar, and terrestrial radiant gravitation influence...