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Balm for Dow. To Dow Chemical (only prewar U.S. magnesium manufacturer) the mild praise was sweet. But even sweeter to the company's white-haired president, Dr. Willard H. Dow, was the deathblow the Committee gave to the popular belief that the U.S. magnesium shortage was due to an agreement between Dow, Alcoa and Germany's I.G. Farben. Under that deal-so the libelous rumor ran-Dow magnesium manufacture was limited, while German production was kited. Other agreements brought antitrust indictments down on the heads of Dow and Alcoa in 1941, forced them...
...Pennsylvania Republican politics last week became as harmonious as Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord. For the first time in 14 years or so, the quartet of Pew, Grundy, Martin and Davis was singing as one. The Irreconcilables had reconciled. But on no ear did the music fall sweeter than on that of handsome, handshaking Senator James John Davis. Puddler Jim was in the luck again...
...Still sweeter was the tally of the Wehrmacht's losses. In the two thunderous months which followed the launching of Hitler's abortive summer offensive on July 5, the Wehrmacht lost, by Russian count, more than 1,500,000 men (420,000 killed), 9,400 tanks, 5,700 planes, 7,200 guns, 35,800 motor vehicles...
...slow-looking, fast-moving Henry Kaiser, both triumphs were sweet. As a production man, the sweeter was the flat-topped Casablanca. For when Kaiser hopped into Washington only last March with plans for large-scale construction of desperately needed carriers from merchant-ship designs, he was cold-shouldered. As usual, the Navy turned him down. As usual, "practical" shipbuilders said the ships would be no good...
...note and pointed to the final paragraph. It was from an Ohio private to his wife: "It will be a different Christmas this year. The altar will be a fallen tree in this stinking jungle. All around there will be the stink of sweat, unwashed clothes and the fainter, sweeter smell of death. But as I kneel to pray I know you will be alongside me praying too, and that will make it a Happy Christmas, darling...