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...midst of this bitterness, the British Government proudly announced it had agreed to buy all of Turkey's surplus of figs and grapes-in order also to acquire her chromium, indispensable in making munitions. The Turks, bowed by the earth's whims, could not help reflecting on the even greater foolishness of man. Some newspaperman in Ankara was reminded of the man in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 who, determined not to let nature's lack of reason upset man's good sense, shaved himself, carefully put studs in a clean shirt, dressed, packed...
...harbors. There is now no place for the 137 new Maritime Commission vessels (all ordered, 22 of them launched) to go. Annual gross revenues of $73,000,000 would be seriously impaired. About 9,000 seamen would become jobless. Such vital U. S. imports as tin, rubber, manganese, chromium, would be curtailed...
...things: soft front-seat edges for comfort, better insulation against road-rumble, trigger-release parking brakes, direction signals and warning signals for low gas & oil, hot motor, faulty ignition, etc. Pointing up comfort, safety, economy, new models are generally longer, lower, wider, roomier, with increased visibility and lots more chromium. Steering column gearshift relegates to the archives the old wobble-stick. Running boards are mostly optional. Air-conditioned heaters are highly favored...
...pretty, not military, not smartly turned out (a greyish green overcoat and a chromium badge), not paid, but by all odds the biggest, most valuable and most womanly of British female war work units is the Women's Voluntary Service. Their big test came on the morning of Aug. 31, when the Ministry of Health flashed WVS's chief, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, to get the children and invalids out of urban danger spots...
Among the few raw materials for munitions in which the United States is not self-sufficient are manganese, tin, rubber, tungsten, chromium, quinine, and others, Colonel Rutherford said. The estimates are that one year's national supply of certain strategic materials should be placed in reserve, and Congress has authorized spending $100,000,000 toward this end in the next four years...