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...goods gathered to find out how much the arms program will pinch them in the rest of the year. For the third quarter, the news was bad; it would probably be worse later on. In a series of new control edicts, the National Production Authority's Boss Manly Fleischmann ordered civilian-goods makers to: ¶Cut their third quarter use of steel, now limited to 80% of the average for the six months preceding Korea, to 70% (65% for autos...
...reason for the slashes, said Fleischmann, is that the defense program is picking up steam. He didn't know just how much steam. Nor does NPA have any idea how much metal is now actually being used in defense and essential industries. It hopes to find out when the Controlled Materials Plan goes into effect in July. But even without that knowledge, it has been earmarking ever-increasing chunks of raw materials for defense. For example, U.S. Steel Corp., which makes one-third of the nation's steel, set aside 25% of its March output for defense...
Football star Jeff Fleischmann and basketball player Red Chadwick lead the Big Red in batting; Rip Haley and Billy Whelan are exceptionally fast on the bases...
Actor Dexter-who in his native Talmadge, Neb. answers to the name of Walter Fleischmann-got the role after 1,784 candidates had been interviewed and 493 tested. In training for three years, he smooches, smirks, tangoes, goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He succeeds in looking like Valentino when the camera angle is right; most of the time, he looks like a jowly young man caught in a hopeless hoax...
...Administrator Fleischmann knows as well as anyone that thus far CMP is little more than a plan on paper. It is far from the tight, overall CMP of World War II, since no one has yet decided exactly how much metal will be siphoned away from civilian production for defense. Said Fleischmann: "The really tough decisions have not been made...