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...Production (John David Biggers) and Priorities (Ed Stettinius). Each division head will continue to have the final say in his field, will work closely with each of the Commodity Sections. All three will get added work. Biggers will also head the Commodity Sections responsible for steel, aluminum, magnesium, paper, pulp and chemicals. Nelson will boss the sections where purchasing problems are most important, such as textiles, food, drugs and clothing. Silver-topped Ed Stettinius will also take on rubber, copper, zinc, similar materials, but will continue to exercise his statutory control over priority matters. All actions for priority, in whatever...
...more than 7,000,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight moved via the Panama Canal. Chief west-to-east items are lumber and wood pulp, canned goods, gasoline and fuel oil. From east to west the big items are steel and manufactured goods. Rail rates are from two to four times higher than water rates. On some bulk commodities this difference could add 25% to 50% to delivered cost. Recently this margin has narrowed, for many shipping rates have increased, while the railroad rates have...
After the Merriwell vein petered out, Gilbert Patten wrote pulp fiction, cinema scenarios, even tried publishing magazines of his own. He now lives in California, a hale, upstanding man of 74. He smokes cigarets (something Frank never did), reads Proust and Zola (of whom Frank never heard). Recently a publisher asked Author Patten to write a novel about Frank as a man of vigorous middle age, coping with the world of 1940. Result: Mr. Frank Merriwell, out this week...
...majority of big London dailies still make almost as much money as they ever did*-despite rationing, circulation allotment, soaring pulp prices (?26 IDS a ton as compared to a pre-war price of ?11 53, a current U. S. price of $50 per ton). The reasons...
Chief humiliator is Uncle Arthur Blake, Squire of Breetholm Manor, who takes his elder brother's by-blow into service, spends a futile year trying to break his spirit. Benjamin beats him to a pulp, boards a Boston ship, is marooned for seven years on a South Pacific paradise...