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...hours a day and at last one day they may ask you to hear their Confessions. There's no easy job in this chaplain's work. One of my classmates . . . once said that the job of saving souls is like trying to catch snowflakes in a tin cup. It's still tougher in the Army. ..." And the Leg Work? "I get the impression from [you] that just because we Jesuits are going to be identified with the Reconstruction of the Social Order that the job is half finished. We are five thousand strong, aren...
Though this two-year supply is big enough to free the U.S. of its present dependence on Bolivia, Washington is not indifferent to Bolivian tin. The prevailing WPB view is that the U.S. should actually build up a stockpile of as much as four years' supply...
...more than 100,000 tons of tin left from the large accumulations made during 1940-41. This is not enough to last one year at the 1941 high rate of consumption (143,342 tons). But by using tin sparingly and substitute materials generously, U.S. wartime tin consumption has been cut to about 50,000 tons a year. The U.S. stockpile will therefore last about two years. But the real news about tin is that the U.S. Government, despite this comfortable supply, has no intention of taking tin off the critical list...
...Furtive Way. In this furtive, costly traffic, Germany and Japan have a dead-pan trade agreement, calling for German delivery of machine tools, sample tanks and planes, blueprints and technicians; Japanese delivery of rubber, tin, tungsten, quinine, opium, edible oils. But the Japs, hard-pressed for shipping in their own orbit, are welshing; most blockade-running is done by Germans...
...sides with Charlie, Johnny Windhurst, Ev Schwarz, and Jack Hart. Of course, these records will not be released, although if it weren't for wartime conditions (including my own status) I'd be inclined to issue the four best sides privately. The most successful efforts were "Squeeze Me" and "Tin Roof Blues," both in medium tempo...