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...northern California's majestic Siskiyou Mountains last week a little, freckle-faced, 109-lb. girl was doing a man-sized job for the U.S. war effort. Her name: Dorothea Reddy Moroney. Her business: mining chrome-essential in armor plate, shells and machine tools but now one of the scarcest metals...
...petroleum-butadiene plants need around 300 tons of steel and 89 units of compressor horsepower per 1,000 tons of butadiene capacity; alcohol-butadiene plants need about the same amount of steel, 169 units of compressor horsepower, plus 27 tons of copper-the scarcest metal of all-v. almost no copper for oil. In the face of this ruckus, the final decision of the rubbermen is that there is no sense in building any new raw-material capacity (even if it could be built fast) as long as petroleum and alcohol between them can fill this bill...
...William Corcoran NIGHT AT HOGWALLOW- Theodore Strauss One of the scarcest forms of U. S. literature, the novelette until recently has been catalogued by U. S. publishers as a fiction, freak. To support this view, publishers could name on the fingers of one hand such lonely little albinos as Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always...
...cutlets, legs of lamb and mutton chops as farmers without forage dispose of their stock. But by 1935 herds will be down to such a point that stockmen will have much less meat for sale. Because of the Government's wholesale slaughter of pigs, pork will be about the scarcest commodity this winter. Where ten pork chops made a 1934 dinner, seven will have to suffice...
...forests of Siberia and the wilderness from Nome to Edmonton, Canada, and then they might need time to spare. ... In a little more than two hours they were off again, with a wave of the hand, into that part of the East where miles are longest and life is scarcest...