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After a vacation in Key West, Fla., Playwright Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams passed through an old locale of his, New Orleans, and announced that all his work had resulted in some play. Title of his latest: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
From time to time, a reporter slipped in a question of local interest. A Texas reporter wanted to know if the President planned to reverse the Budget Bureau and keep the Texas City tin smelter open. Without batting an eye at the assumption that he would be fully informed on such specific details, the President said the possibility is being studied, but he has made no decision...
...propagandists of Red China and Russia make it apparent that their purpose is to dominate all of Southeast Asia . . . the so-called 'rice bowl' which helps to feed the densely populated region that extends from India to Japan. It is rich in many raw materials such as tin, oil, rubber and iron ore [and lies] astride the most direct and best-developed sea and air routes between the Pacific and South Asia. It has major naval and air bases...
Another reason for boosting stockpiles is that the Administration is being forced to buy up more stocks of copper, lead, zinc, tin, magnesium, tungsten and other metals than it had planned. While the fighting was on in Korea, the Truman Administration encouraged expansion of domestic mineral and metal products beyond normal needs by guaranteeing a market for much of the extra output. The guarantees served their purpose. But when demand slacked off and prices fell, the Administration had to buy up the surplus. It either had to raise stockpile limits or dump excess metals on a shaky market...
...small town in France, teaching school all day, writing music half the night, waiting to hear if the Paris Opera people like the score he sent them. The trouble is, there's so much noise. At the garage next door, they are always gunning engines and throwing tin cans around; when he goes for a walk, small boys follow him into the quietest parks and squawk their little tin horns. How can a man write music in such conditions...