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...tons. Cultivating seeds originally brought from South America, both have long since outstripped Brazil, whose "wild" trees last year furnished only 16,094 tons. All the "wild" trees in the world produced less than 40,000 tons last year, less than a month's supply if the motor-minded U. S. got it all. On hand in U. S. storehouses last week was a supply of about three months, with about two months more on the sea bound for U. S. ports, and on U. S. shelves lay three months' supply of finished tires...
...long way from being as indispensable as rubber, is also a less ugly picture from the supply side. No. 1 use (45% of consumption) of tin is for coating the cans in which U. S. citizens get their beans, their beer, their motor oil. Other uses are smaller percentagewise, but often less easily switched. Tin is indispensable for Babbitt metal and bronze used in aircraft and automobile engines...
...aging (70) Archer Huntington and his wife turned over their 29,644 shares; the balance of the firm's 100,000 shares were delivered by various Huntington trusts, estates and cultural institutions. One of the last of the big family-owned U. S. enterprises (biggest, Ford Motor Co.), Newport News is now scheduled for early listing on the New York Stock Exchange...
...basic Selden patent suit against most of the rest of the automobile industry, he has gone his own way, had no truck with the Automobile Manufacturers' Association, held his own auto shows, stood out in a cooperative industry as an arch-individualist. Exceptions: 1) after Ford Motor Co. bought Lincoln Motor Co., an A. M. A. member, Lincolns continued to take part in A. M. A. shows; 2) Ford suggested and cooperated in the industrywide Used Car Week of 1939; 3) Ford joined in the simultaneous introduction of the Sealed-Beam headlight in the industry's 1940 cars...
Often Traveler Daniels says in his velvety way that he didn't like it. Of the modern motor highway: "Instead of Connecticut, the rider sees mile after mile of identical right of way prettified with a million dollars' worth of grass and tree. ..." He has a quiet eye for the significantly grotesque: "A gymnasium which looks like a cathedral backs up in New Haven to a dark yard where boys play ball beside a huge garbage heap where first base ought...