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...business men of the necessity for piling up back-logs of industrial stocks. The original estimates of industrial reserves have since turned out to be as abourdly small as he asserted. At present, only molybdenum of the many scare metals has been piled up in sufficient quantities. Even nickel is restricted...
Engineer of the sex instinct, they said, is a nickel-sized area of tissue at the base of the brain called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus throws the switch for all man's primitive emotions-rage, fear, desire. Normally the hypothalamus is checked by the more civilized cerebral cortex. But sometimes the leash is broken and the hypothalamus runs wild, ignoring, as a neurologist once remarked, "refinements of decency and convention...
...last week an estimated 70,000 skilled workmen, 1,380,000 tons of steel (nearly 2% of U.S. capacity), 124,850 tons of rubber, 5,500 tons of aluminum, 29,040 tons of copper, 2,640 tons of tin, 60,170 tons of lead, 5,275,600 Ib. of nickel. Two days later they made available an additional $35,000,000 of machine tooling, 15,000,000 more man-hours of production, much of their best engineering talent...
...factories. In 1939 it used 80% of all rubber consumed in the U.S., 51% of malleable iron, 34.2% of lead, 18.1% of steel, 14% of grey iron. In the field of essential defense materials where the pinch is greatest, it used 23% of the nation's nickel, 13.7% of copper, 11.4% of tin, 9.7% of aluminum. Now defense needs some of these men and materials...
...success of the church is the good-neighbor policy Dr. Otterbein has fostered from the beginning. As neat brick bungalows mushroomed up in North Austin, he and his flock kept up steady personal evangelism on their own blocks. Their slogan was, "When you see a moving van, spend a nickel," referring to their pastor's request that any member who saw a moving van in his neighborhood call Dr. Otterbein so that he could go right over...