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Allen's problem: how to add 20,000 Ib. weight to the Fortress without decreasing its altitude or its speed. Adding a tail-gun was revolutionary in itself. It meant greatly increased weight, a displaced center of gravity. How well Eddie Allen succeeded in applying his test-pilot-M.I.T. knowledge of engineering is emphasized almost daily from Rabaul to Bizerte...
Born. To Marva Trotter Barrow, 26; and Sergeant Joseph Louis Barrow, 28, World Heavyweight Champion: their first child, a daughter, 7 Ib. 5 oz.; in Chicago...
...Nations with sugar on the assumption that we might be cut off from Hawaiian and even Puerto Rican supplies. Cuba promptly upped production by 15% and produced some 4,500,000 tons of sugar and molasses in 1942 and sold most of it to the U.S. at 2.65? a Ib. f.o.b., only a shade above the 1941 market...
Instead of meeting a pliant Uncle Sam, Cuban sugar men have therefore smacked into a tough bargainer. The U.S. offer to Cuba last month: a 40% cut in production, last year's price, plus two measly sops in the form of 1-1½? a Ib. for an additional 400,000-ton stock pile and vague offers to help Cuba diversify its one-crop economy (which is more than high-cost domestic producers have been persuaded...
...plenty of the blame rests squarely on U.S. meat buyers. With more free cash than ever before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...