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Materials & Men. The shortages which sprang from U.S. soil in 1941 like armed men from dragon's teeth took most businessmen by surprise. Ed Stettinius got his surprise as early as February, when the vast expansion of the plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...
...Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia, slew a dragon with Athene's help: its teeth, when sown, sprang from the earth as fully armed soldiers...
...those days the loam in the Genesee bottom lands was 18 feet thick, and the whole valley sprang with grass so rich that wild horses by hundreds roved in it invisibly. It was a stage where the conflicts of a nascent nation played themselves towards ultimate compromise, and it was peopled with some interesting characters...
Picket lines sprang up once more, and C.I.O. leaders threatened to call a sympathetic strike among aircraft plants in the five eastern States. Out of patience, Washington sent Colonel Roy M. Jones, two other Army officers to Bendix to see that the Board's recommendations were carried...
With only two and one-half minutes left to play, the Second Freshmen offense sprang into action, crashing through tackle with the lone score of the day to register a 6 to 0 victory over the Leveret Bunnies. The Claverly Clippers failed to turn out with a full team and lost by forfeit to the Gold Coasters of Adams...