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...Hank Greenberg, Cleveland's Bob Feller, Washington's Cecil Travis, Philadelphia's Sam Chapman-and many another great ballplayer will follow them to war before the season ends. But draft or no draft, U.S. baseball fans were down with their perennial spring fever: trying to dope out how 16 big-league teams will finish in far-off October...
...Treasury is also forbidden by law to sell its silver below $1.29 an ounce. Washington lawyers managed to dope out a way to lend-lease it. The way: use silver instead of copper for bus bars in electric generating plants and in the "pot lines" of aluminum and magnesium plants. A typical large bus bar would take a chunk of silver 24 feet long, eight inches wide, three-fourths of an inch thick-weighing 650 lb. After the war the silver, little or none the worse for wear, could be replaced by copper again and returned to West Point...
...Harvard," says the E.I.D.L. dope sheet, "will base its hopes for a good season on pitchers Burgy Ayres and Mort Waldstein, but even if they are in form, the Crimson may have trouble finding sufficient hitting power to provide them with a fairly steady supply of runs...
...defeats, the danger, the urgency of the hour had all hit home. The nation was astir. The old played-out words-Defense Program; A Small Army for Defense; Defend America by Aiding the Allies-now sounded like mumblings in a dream. The dope of complacency had worn off. The country began to look at its heritage and its destiny with better understanding; a people that had almost cravenly debated "neutrality" now looked forward to the fight...
...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...