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...Privately some OPM-ites had already said there was not enough copper for essential defense and civilian needs (TIME, Aug. 18); officially, OPM had recognized an 11,000,000-ton steel shortage for this year; the aluminum shortage was already a vaudeville joke. As far as OPM's meager statistics showed, the quotas were not only a maximum but a reverie. It was possible, to be sure, that automakers had much bigger inventories of scarce materials than they admitted. (They had enough to turn out 45,600 units last fortnight, more than twice the output in the corresponding...
...Alcoa will also build a plant to produce 400,000,000 lb. a year of alumina (intermediate step between bauxite ore and the finished metal). The plants (cost: $52,000,000) will be operated by Alcoa under a five-year lease. For its managerial services, Alcoa will get a meager 15% of the profits, the Government the rest...
...epitome of a natural American, plays Alvin York to perfection. He has admirable assistance: Mother York (Margaret Wycherly), Pastor Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan), York's sweetheart Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie) and a first-rate supporting cast. The picture also manages to produce an almost documentary description of the meager, resourceful life of the South's mountain folk...
Fencing fans here are going to be on a very meager diet this year, for Rene Peroy's swordsmen will play only three out of their ten meets at the Indoor Athletic Building...
That was David W. Prall. Though one of the most brilliant of modern philosophers, he was first of all, to those who knew him, a wise, friendly man. Constantly his associates urged him to save his meager strength, but still he spent it profusely, in talking long into the evening with his tutees and fellow House members. More than most tutors, he knew his students. As President of the Teachers' Union, he always stood for close cooperation between students and those who worked most effectively to help the underprivileged. As a teacher, he added great lustre to this University...