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...Case of Meadville. To most of Meadville's 18,919 people the priorities cloud last week looked no bigger than a man's hand. They knew that Talon, Inc. (zipper manufacturers) had been unable to buy any metal since Aug. 1, had laid off 800 of its 5,219 Meadville workers, had only enough inventories to keep going until next month. But Meadville has led a charmed life. Thanks to Talon's spectacular growth and a new American Viscose Corp. rayon plant, it scarcely felt the de pression of the '305. None of its three banks...
Hence Meadville was slow to believe that depression could strike while the whole nation boomed in '41. The layoff of Talon's first 800 was hardly noticed; they were boys and girls fresh out of high school, mostly from neighboring towns and farms. Some of them found jobs at the Viscose plant across French Creek, some quietly went back home. The State Employment Service was busier with the seasonal layoff of cooks and waitresses in nearby resort hotels than with Meadville's first priorities casualties. To many a citizen, the "priorities problem" meant the serious difficulty...
...tomatoes, pale green roasting ears, cucumbers, cantaloupes, bright yellow squash. On Saturday there was no parking space to be found in front of the clothing stores and banks on Chestnut Street. Young factory workers jitterbugged until 2 a.m. in juke-box honky-tonks. Lights burned all night in Talon's plants; change of shifts at 2:30 p.m., 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. involved a major traffic problem...
...head that ringed an aching tooth, a long handle for a good grip. "There never was a claw on bird or beast," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that was the cause of such anguish . . . such howls of agony as that diabolical instrument looking like a vulture's talon...
...from Shensi. Shansi's rough mountains are heavy with anthracite and iron, and because lack of communications has so far meant limited exploitation, the coal-poor, iron-hungry Japanese want it more than any other inland province. The Chinese, who realize that losing it means surrendering their last talon-hold in North China, have hung on like eagles. Some of China's best fighting men are there, reports Reporter White: the hard-riding cavalry of General Ma Chan-shan, "Giant Horse,"hero of Manchuria; the famous Communist 8th Route guerrillas; the cream of China's Government troops...