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...enormous expansion of the U.S. Army Air Forces beginning in 1942, old-time airmen felt sure they could see trouble ahead. It seemed inconceivable that inexperienced pilots could be rushed into hot new aircraft without sending accident rates skyhigh. Last week the oldtimers could congratulate themselves that they had been wrong...
...around Permanente. Hundreds of construction workers jostled with hundreds of production employes trying to handle highly explosive magnesium dust. Once a conveyor pipe broke and caused an explosion which killed a few workers; again careless builders hooked on to a hydrogen line instead of an air hose, blew themselves skyhigh. Atop everything else, the newly designed three-story electric furnaces were constantly on the blink because the terrific heat (4,000° F.) melted vital parts...
...pulp. Later on, some of it is used a second time to make paperboard, and (except in the South, where some board is made of kraft pulp) 85% of the raw material for that comes from old papers. When the demand for cardboard to package war materials shot up skyhigh, a lot more old paper was needed than ever before; and so a great patriotic drive was launched to get it collected...
...night last week Broadway and half Manhattan blacked out -from Greenwich Village to Harlem. The greatest concentration of light in all the world blinked out. Suddenly dark were the marquees and façades of Roseland, Lindy's, the Paramount, the Astor; dark were the skyhigh signs. Out went the New York Times's electric bulletins -as though time itself had quit on Broadway. The only light a plane could see came from a pale "bomber's" moon, touching the skyscraper towers and silvering the rivers. Crowds in Times Square watched the phenomenon, dumbstruck. Broadway...
...fact-packed 43-page pamphlet, the Brookings Institution this week blasted the New Deal's price-control policies skyhigh. Chief factors in rising prices, said Brookings, are higher farm prices and higher wages. A price bill that does not seek to control them is just no good...