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...expansion planned for Canada's aluminum industry. First steps in this direction were taken two years ago in the aluminum city of Arvida, near Lake St. John. Today-with the aid of U.S. as well as Canadian capital -the aluminum industry in Canada has expanded sevenfold over its pre-war capacity, supplies fully 40% of the entire Allied demand. Around the new dam-which may or may not be near Arvida-the biggest aluminum plant in the world is growing up to turn out the material for United Nations planes...
Foodman Wickard hastily explained that there was no real shortage of these foods: supplies are the biggest ever. Big hitch is that the Army, Navy and Lend-Lease will gobble up about half 1943's production, leave only 33 Ib. for every U.S. citizen against a pre-war consumption of 46 Ib. The only choice was rationing, under a point system to be started when new ration books are ready in February...
...over 30 miles a day. Now he was thinking in terms of a rubber army. With the land of Brazil's Far West opened by modern transportation, developed by modern methods, Brazilians hoped to step the rubber output up to 50,000 tons by 1944, almost triple the pre-war figure...
Mackenzie King's temperance edict-issued under his emergency war powers-was ordered in the name of total war (he talked of savings in manpower efficiency and scarce newsprint). But he also complained that Canadian thirst had increased since the war began: pre-war consumption of spirits had risen from 3,500,000 gallons yearly to almost 5,000,000; wine consumption had increased by nearly 1,000,000 gallons...
Last week in London the U.S. Army Air Forces commissioned Major Benjamin Lyon, 41, of Baltimore, Hollywood and British Broadcasting Corp. The Army also qualified him for active service, presumably as an earth-bound intelligence officer (despite his 1,100 pre-war flying hours, his transport pilot's ticket...