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From a teacher in a Southern city .-"Last year I inspected teeth, swabbed throats . . . patrolled the aisles of concerts, kept order at hot-dog roasts, solicited subscriptions for magazines, collected tin cans and scrap paper, fumbled at operating a movie camera, and was interrupted almost daily by the order to file in with my class to see a dull, poorly done film because audiovisual education is on the beam...
Rubber was only one of many commodities which were sliding down last week from their price peaks. Malayan tin dropped to $1.14½ a lb.-a 41% slump in four months-because the Reconstruction Finance Corp., buyer of all U.S. tin, had stopped buying. It is selling its stockpiled tin to U.S. users at $1.06 a lb. RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington hinted last week that world prices have dropped about enough and the U.S. might soon start buying again. This would be a big relief to some U.S. State Department officials, who are worried that Symington's tin...
...peyote hassle" has been described by a paleface intruder. Navajos of all ages and both sexes sat around a fire with a crude sand-painting of the moon beside it. While the "peyote priest" fussed with the sand-painting, a tin tub full of water was boiling. Peyote buttons were dumped into it. After they had softened, they were fished out and passed around to be chewed. The liquid was doled out in cups. After that, said the observer, it was "every man for himself." Men hopped up with peyote, he reported, "are likely to grab the closest female, whatever...
...Manganese . . . . . 3,375,000 5 50 Tungsten . . . . . . . 8,816 22 35 Cobalt . . . . . . . . . . 6,500 14 63 Nickel . . . . . . . . . . 170,000 ½ 50 Molybdenum . . . . 15,680 90 83 Wool . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000,000 (lbs.) 3 16 Cotton . . . . . . . . . . 31,400,000 (bales) 52 29 Natural Rubber . . 2,060,740 0 39 Tin...
Price Gouging. This was not all the fault of the U.S.; many a producer used the shortages to do some price gouging. The most conspicuous example is tin, controlled by a cartel run by tin men of Great Britain, Belgium, Holland and Bolivia. After Korea, tin jumped from 78¾? a lb. to $1.82, forcing the RFC to step in and do all the buying for the U.S. Said RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington: "They murdered us on prices." To stop the slaughter, RFC went on a buyers' strike in March, and tin settled to about $1.50. Two weeks...