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...other ways, war's pinch tightened enough last week to raise more than aluminum bruises on the U.S. economic body. To the list of metals already under mandatory Government control (aluminum, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...
...themselves: mechanization. Sales of agricultural machinery are up 20% this year, bid fair to set an alltime record by year's end. To help farmers buy still more machinery, the Agriculture Department has lined up with the farm implement industry for preferred treatment on the materials (steel, aluminum, nickel, etc.) the industry needs. But one shortage always breeds another: in Illinois last week, farm equipment dealers complained that they couldn't keep enough good service men to make repairs...
Expansion or no, it was clear this week that steel's private rationing system will soon have to be exchanged for an official one. There are current shortages in plates for ships and railroad cars, in nickel steels, in structural shapes; yet many a non-defense customer (notably the auto industry) gets all the steel it needs...
...weeks before war was declared, after six weeks of intensive effort, Baruch, commissioner in charge of raw materials, had set up organizations for total war: industrial committees of leaders in the great materials groups: leather, rubber, steel, wool, nickel, oil, zinc, coal, spruce wood. Then, at a time when War Department officers had no plans, even hypothetical, for the organization and equipment of an army of any size, the Advisory Commission began calculating what an army of 1,000,000 men would need...
...smiles and raises two fingers, everyone knows it was twins; he is one of El Paso's leading obstetricians. The El Paso Symphony has numerous Mexican players, several Cavalry officers from Fort Bliss. An Indian janitor, Chief Guadalupe Serna, a dead ringer for the brave on the buffalo nickel, plays the bull fiddle. At one time the orchestra's schedule had to be accommodated to the schedule of the Southern Pacific Railroad, because the clarinetist was a Pullman conductor. He was an absent-minded clarinetist. When the orchestra played Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, in which...