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Push v. Punch. Oldtime flyers look back amazed at the changes in aviation brought about by cheap 100 octane gas. In 1930, typical engine weight per horsepower was 1.6 Ib. Now it has dropped to 1.25 Ib...
...power just in time to use it. Priorities Chief Donald Nelson last week told a Congressional committee that 1,378,000 Ib. of copper, some of it "undoubtedly Axis-owned," lay in U.S. warehouses, untouchable despite the acute copper shortage. Not only will that copper now be requisitioned, but also carloads of machinery, steel, silk, rubber, tin plate, manganese and other hoarded, hidden and frozen inventories. Economic Defense Board and OPM agents combed New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco freight yards for them last week (TIME...
...first priority violator to be caught (TIME, Oct. 20) received its punishment last week. The victim: Chicago's Central Pattern and Foundry Co., found guilty of using its priority rating to buy illegally 6,075 Ib. of aluminum scrap from Milwaukee Scrap Metal Co., 19,530 Ib. from Brodey Brothers; and of illegally selling for non-defense uses 2,739 Ib. of aluminum to Farnsworth Telephone & Radio Co. (jukebox castings), 8,787 Ib. to 0. D. Jennings Co. (coin machines), 17,199 Ib. to Mills Novelty Co. (coin machines), 5,613 Ib. to Haywood Wakefield Co. (railroad-coach seat...
March 31, 1942, except for defense orders already started, which will require 288,000 Ib. Because the company also fabricates brass and zinc products, some of its 250 employes will still work...
...which concessions were granted, most important for Argentina were flaxseed, canned corned beef (fresh beef is still excluded), cattle hides and a new set of products formerly imported from Europe (wines, cheeses, anchovies, etc.). The 50% cut on canned-beef tariff (from 6? to 3? per Ib.) aroused the usual speaking-for-the-record opposition by beef-State Congressmen, but it meant little. Said J. Taylor, president of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association...