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Newsmen promptly protested the new rules. Pentagon reporters, who are already hamstrung by the tightest security rules in Washington, pointed out both changes would mean that most of their news in the future would come from handouts. Some Pentagon reporters said that they would file stories, without checking with Berding, rather than take a chance that their exclusives would be released under the new rule to other newsmen...
Ahmed Hussein was in the tightest squeeze of his nimble life, but in his 42 years Hussein had slipped eellike out of nets before. When Hitler stood high, Hussein was a fascist, founder of the Green Shirts, and did not seem to lack for money. His followers chanted "Come, Rommel. Come, Rommel." He was locked up as a dangerous subversive, but one day he slipped out of jail and out of sight...
...businessmen have long known that rearmament's tightest pinch on civilian production would come in 1952's second quarter. But last week, when the Defense Production Administration allocated the quarter's supplies of metals, manufacturers learned that the pinch will not be as tight as they had feared. Reason: the "stretch-out"in the arms program enabled DPA to reduce the additional 10% cut in metals which had been scheduled. Instead, steel will not be cut at all; copper and aluminum will be cut only 5% on the average. And even "less essential" producers (aluminum blinds, cigarette...
...clothes that anybody wants. The pinch should ease after the first six months. The supply of steel will be tightest in the first quarter. After that, expanding capacity (scheduled to hit 118 million tons in 1952 and 120 million tons in 1953) should make more civilian steel available. The total output of goods & services will expand to an estimated $356 billion at the end of 1952. But with rising incomes there will be more money available than goods & services to spend it on, i.e., an "inflationary gap" of about $12 billion. Last year's high saving was abnormal...
...biggest magnesium plant. Around it, the Government built a brand-new town, called Henderson. At war's end, the plant shut down; its vast shops were used as warehouses. But last week the U.S. was putting the big plant back to work again to uncork one of the tightest bottlenecks in jet aircraft production. Pittsburgh's Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. and Manhattan's National Lead Co. announced that their jointly owned Titanium Metals Corp., with a fiveyear, $14,163,000 tax write-off from the Government, is converting the plant to mass production of titanium metal...