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...British, settled in Madagascar, had a grip on the vital Indian Ocean sentry box the Jap would have given a lot to own. But Axis submarines still operated sporadically to the west in the Mozambique Channel, between Madagascar and the African mainland, through which ship-borne supplies and men flowed north to Russia, the Near East and India. Last week the British announced that they had taken another step...
...radio performance of Dmitri Shostakovitch's Seventh Symphony had every prospect of being one of the greatest occasions in musical history. The composer was considered the best living symphonist, the orchestra was first-rate, the conductor Toscanini, and the audience immense. With Germany and Russia locked in a death-grip from Leningrad to the Black Sea, and the music fresh from the pen of Russia's Composer Laureate, the event had tremendous news value...
Alcoa has thus come through the most serious crisis it has ever faced-its grip on aluminum practically unshaken. It has had to cut prices to 15? a lb. (v. 20? in 1937); it has taken on operating contracts for Government-owned plants for only 15% of the profits-and that means for practically nothing at all, after paying up to 94% of that 15% back to the U.S. in excess-profits taxes. But Alcoa kept its leadership in aluminum unchallenged...
...Wood veneer (plywood) planes are 25 years old. The first rickety-looking planes were flown in World War I-but mould and temperature changes ate away the casein (milk base) glues which held their veneers together. Not until the plastics industry evolved a phenolic resin glue with a permanent grip were strong wood airplanes possible...
...Government took stock too, and then got a grip on its stick. A dawning fact was that trucks, not subject to rationing at all, could and probably would become the source of a rushing, illicit supply...