Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson, and bouncy Maury Maverick, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corp., are in a minority. They argue that idle U.S. machinery and men should be free to use the mountains of surplus aluminum. (Fortnight ago the Aluminum Association stated that curtail ments in aluminum for war materials now exceed the total amount of aluminum used by the country annually before the war.) Last week SWPC estimated that two and a half million tons of steel in odd lots, shapes and sizes could be turned over to small manufacturers who have no war contracts...
...month supply. Each theater had burned up about 65,000,000 gallons of 100-octane during May, with even greater consumption due in months to come. But if refiners can produce even a little more than they are making now, PAW is confident that production will somehow exceed the 1944 estimates of 196,000,000 bbl. To help the boost, they will get 400,000 bbl. of butylenese, diverted this week by Rubber Director Col. Bradley Dewey from the rubber progrram to octane manufacture...
...court to be lenient with him." Less inclined to leniency, Judge Lester W. Patterson reduced the charge to simple assault, last week sentenced Parolee Peluso to the city penitentiary for a term not to exceed three years...
...enough. In industrial New Jersey, where even the busiest war worker could find some time to vote during the 13-hour poll day, they straggled into the polls at the rate of six an hour. Nowhere except in Frank Hague's well-regimented Hudson County did the vote exceed 15% of the registration, either Democratic or Republican...
...kinds of war goods. The scheduled spending for war goods had already been cut back this year by $16 billion. And last week the Navy went further, cutting back actual fighter-plane production by chopping off $180,000,000 of orders, and by telling planemakers not to try to exceed production schedules. Many men were laid off (see BUSINESS...