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...they expected to see a doddering oldster, they were surprised. Old Steve Dutton is built like the village smith, bullnecked, his nearly-six-foot frame wrapped with 180 Ib. of muscle as tough as a lion-tamer's boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...
Hence they have little incentive to put them up in cans; most of the tinned beef sold in the U. S. already is packed in South America. In 1939 the Navy got a bid of 9.?7 a Ib. (not counting tariff) against a low bid of 23.6/ for U. S. tinned beef. Yet when President Roosevelt proposed that the Navy accept the Argentine bid (at a saving of $6,672), sectionally-minded Congressmen like Scrugham tied his hands...
...beaten a schedule. The Radford Ordnance Works, built and operated by Hercules Powder Co., was going into production three months ahead of plan. When the first of Radford's production lines starts rolling this week, it will turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 100,000 Ib. a day, nearly 50% more than the U. S. was producing on a peacetime schedule. And when Radford's other two lines go into production this summer, its output will...
Another new plant at Charlestown, Ind. (capacity 600,000 Ib. daily) is well ahead of schedule, will go into production, operated by Du Pont, in April. And the third, at Childersburg, Ala., will be ready to turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 300,000 Ib. by midsummer. No matter what unforeseen delays might do later, one critical bottleneck was cracked, would soon break. By autumn, the Army and Navy would have a wartime powder supply...
...over the world (200-300% from the U. S. to the Near East, 50% to Singapore and The Netherlands Indies, 25% to South America). Commodities markets boiled with evidence that traders knew there was many a shoal ahead for ocean-going freight. Rubber rose to 22.75? a Ib. (a new high for the season), raw sugar to 3.30? a Ib. (highest in 17 months), cocoa to 7.43? a Ib. (highest since...