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...After 114 days without rain, Arizona was enduring one of the longest droughts in state history. Water holes and rivers had gone dry, ranges were dust, cattle herds were being shipped north or sold. The drought belt extended east to New Mexico and central Texas. In some Texas saloons, tin cups were put by the cash registers to collect funds for professional rainmakers. Oldtimers glumly compared conditions to the famous drought of 1903-04, when a man could cross the Verde River over the carcasses of dead cattle and never touch foot to the dry riverbed...
Alexander Calder is a sculptor who puzzles people more than he pleases them, and he pleases a lot of them a lot. The point was proved anew last week by a big show of Calder "mobiles" and "stabiles" at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His mobiles were painted tin and wire contraptions that jiggled and joggled. Some reared nervously from the floor; others hung jittering from the ceiling. One, near the door, featured a padded drumstick that bonged a brass gong in the occasional breeze. Another, The Blizzard of dangled a cloud of white discs from what looked like black coat...
...last time that Mencken spoke well of his native land. Years later he admitted that "I wouldn't swap an American bathroom for the Acropolis." But these were passing sentimentalities from the man whose avowed program was "to combat, chiefly by ridicule, American piety, stupidity, tin-pot morality, cheap chauvinism in all their forms...
More material shortages for civilian users-and probably more layoffs-were in the cards. Last week the National Production Authority ordered a 20% cutback in the civilian use of tin for February, said it would again cut the supply of vital cobalt for the radio and television industry. From General Electric Co.'s new President Ralph J. Cordiner came a hint of how much war production would be stepped up in the future. Said he: G.E., whose production is already 22% in war goods, would boost the proportion to one-third or more...
...Warned that it would soon be forced to order a cut in the nonmilitary use of tin by "something less than 30%" and that it might ban copper and cobalt for nonessential products where other metals can be substituted...