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...SPA's weightiest brickbat had been the charge that Alcoa had blocked the disposal of surplus Government aluminum plants. Alcoa had refused, said SPAdministrator W. Stuart Symington, to license its patents on its process of converting low-grade bauxite into alumina (which is in turn smelted down to aluminum). This had blocked SPA's deal to lease the Hurricane Creek plant (which operates on low-grade bauxite) and Jones Mills aluminum plant to the Reynolds Metals Co. (TIME, Dec. 31). Alcoa's frail, grey-haired vice president, I. W. Wilson, had indignantly denied the charges...
...Simple Life. At Mondorf, a Luxembourg spa, the cream of Germany's criminal crop was being conditioned for the trials...
...Harry's Arcade Spa, whose floors have felt the tread of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, pinball was termed "good clean fun," "necessary for morale," "harmless amusement."' "If the game is banned," said one habitue, "you will get a vicious ring of backroom machines and gambling. The ban will probably boomerang." Regardless of the outcome of the ban, Arcade Spa, which thrives on pinball revenue, will be hard...
...Dirt. In Spa, Belgium, famed for its mineral and mud baths, Sergeant Edward Shelton of San Antonio relaxed in non-G.L, therapeutic dirt...
...arms which Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First U.S. Army had thrown around Aachen in a classic bear hug had posed two deadly questions to the Germans : 1 ) should the ancient spa (and modern textile and coal mining center) be defended to the last cellar, as a Stalingrad-like model for the German home front? 2) was it also the focus of the main Allied offensive to smash the Siegfried Line...