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...them stumped. Still shut tight at week's end, after 52 days of wrangling, was the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee. Gathering dust were $45,000,000 worth of orders for machinery to equip warships, machinery and machine tools needed in shipbuilding, turbogenerators needed for the new smokeless powder plant at Radford, Va. (see p. 21). Like traffic jammed in a narrow street, work was piling up behind the stalled work at Allis-Chalmers. Government officials helplessly beat their breasts...
...Army's Ordnance Department is to supply the Army with guns and tanks, powder and explosives. On the business of turning out powder, for everything from pistols to 16-in. guns, Ordnance had to start pretty close to scratch...
Last week Ordnance dedicated with due fuss & feathers the first of its three new smokeless powder plants. Standing in the soggy red clay of southwest Virginia (six miles from Radford), 22,000 workmen who had done the job heard praises for their work from such military bigwigs as Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson, Major General Charles Macon Wesson. Earlier, visitors and workmen had strolled through Radford's 4,400 scarred acres, inspected its 639 small and scattered buildings, seen demonstrations of escape chutes (see cut) for quick slides to safety when fire and powder get together...
PlaceState. Cond. Skiing in. Snow Cannon Mt. (Franconia) N.H. Cloudy Good 48 17 New powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Fair Fair 11 Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 23 Wind packed powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Fair 20 2 Powder surface Littleton, N.H. Fair Fair 11 Monadnock Region, N.H. Fair Fair 9 Frozen granular Newfound Region, N.H. Fair Good 11 Granular surface North Conway, N.H. Fair Good 10 5 to 11 powder Pinkham Notch N.H. Fair Good 46 Wind packed powder Plymouth, N.H. Fair Good 21 6 New Stowe (Mt. Mansfield) Vt. Cloudy Good 36 Wind packed powder Sunapee Region, N.H. Cloudy Fair...
...contract signed last week calls for a loading station adjacent to the Government's Du Pont-built smokeless powder plant in Childersburg, Ala. (TIME, Feb. 17). Through a wholly-owned subsidiary (Brecon Loading Co.) set up overnight, Coca-Cola will spend $1,091,000 on equipment, use the rest for operating expenses. As for profits, Chairman of the Board Robert Winship Woodruff (whose experience with gunpowder has hitherto been confined to his notable quick-triggery in the hunting field) explained: "We don't expect to make any money...