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Some likely uses: airplane and jet engine parts (for high strength, lightness and heat resistance); marine hardware (resistance to salt water); industrial equipment where corrosion resistance is important. If titanium does catch on, there is plenty of it. There is more titanium on earth than all the lead, zinc, tin, nickel, copper, gold and silver put together...
Walk Together. Messrs. Styne & Cahn are, after Rodgers & Hammerstein, perhaps the most successful songwriting team on Tin Pan Alley. In the seven years they have been partners, they have writ ten 150 songs together, sold 6,000,000 copies of sheet music, made the hit parade two dozen times and first place nine times (among their hits: I'll Walk Alone; It's Been a Long, Long Time; Give Me Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with...
...good title -I've Heard That Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions, and the titles of their best songs, have come like that. Like their brothers on Tin Pan Alley, Styne & Cahn believe that a tune either "romps," "walks," "bounces," or you put it away. Says Jule: "You can't fight it; either it comes easy or you don't play with it." Last week the latest Styne & Cahn hit, It's Magic, was the nation...
Thirty years ago British police in Malaya imported 50 headhunting Dvaks from the jungles of North Borneo. Their mission was to hunt down the robber chieftain Chang Lun, whose little band of terrorists ruled the Kinta valley in the border state of Perak, the British Empire's richest tin-mining zone. Armed with six-foot sumpitans (blowpipes) and keen, long-bladed parangs, the naked warriors snaked through the jungles to Chang Lun's hideout and nabbed their...
...statement in TIME, July 19, that "Before the war Indonesia was the hallowed preserve of Dutch and British traders and cartels (notably tin and rubber), which all but shut out U.S. business" grievously slanders the Dutch. Before the war an unlimited number of U.S. firms could have had, and very many did have (amongst others, Goodyear and Standard Oil), vast and growing enterprises in Indonesia . . . thanks to the model open door policy of the Dutch government which welcomed all enterprises, including Japanese...