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Stranded in New York, Mobile, New Orleans, Norfolk, Tacoma, were freighters and passenger ships. Chiefly affected were ten vessels of the Alcoa Line, which carry supplies to defense bases in the West Indies, bring back bauxite from Surinam (Dutch Guiana). Bauxite is the raw material of aluminum, which is the most publicized of defense-program shortages...
Most important of all, Mr. Secretary Ickes delivered a shrewd speech in Tacoma to win the Northwest to his side in the great three-cornered battle which is now going on for control of the new defense power projects-a three-cornered battle in which Ickes is arrayed against Leland Olds of the Federal Power Commission on one side and all the sponsors of the Regional Valley Authorities on the other. In his speech, dedicating the Tacoma power substation to J. D. Ross, the late public power pioneer, he hit the farthest north any New Deal figure has come...
...nation's aluminum shortage, OPM did finally name Kalunite's parent company (Olin Corp.) to operate a Government-owned plant. But OPM did not specify whether alunite ore could be used, hemmed & hawed over location of the plant. Eichelberger wanted to build on tidewater at Tacoma, use Bonneville Dam power. He called on Clifton H. Chadwick, an OPM consulting engineer, to suggest this plan. His description of the meeting: "I was treated with all the courtesy of a cross-eyed stepchild." Later Chadwick visited the site, ruled that it was unsuitable, suggested another location "15 miles...
Details of Chadwick's inspection were supplied by Frank Walsh of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce...
...Georgians." << King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 17, reached London safely, prepared to establish his Government-in-Exile there. << John L Lewis Jr. graduated from not-so-laborite Princeton. The labor leader brought his cigar along and watched. << George Weyerhaeuser, famed kidnap victim of 1935, now 15, graduated from a Tacoma, Wash, junior high school. << Joseph P. Kennedy's second-youngest daughter, Patricia, 17, was chosen to bottle-whack the S.S. President Polk, last of the American President Lines' new series of combination freight-and-passenger vessels...