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...John Carroll prefers women to barns, feels that good art is seldom inspired by current events or political ideas. A painter's job, he believes, is to idealize his subjects. "If I wanted to paint a picnic scene," he says, "instead of showing a picnic site littered with tin cans and bottles and rubbish, I would paint something that would make the spectator want to go on a picnic...
...Facts. The principal argument against Henry Kaiser's big idea (with which few citizens disagreed in principle) was the raw-material shortage. Resourceful Henry Kaiser might use the chrome in California soil, tin from Nevada, but he did not convince WPB of his ability to get all his needed metals. Fact is that part of the Army's combat-plane program is already lagging for lack of raw materials. Donald Nelson promised Kaiser "plenty of action." if-a big "if"-it can be proved that the Kaiser dream will not cut into the combat-plane program...
Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
...industry to save about-to-be-scarce metals "invariably resulted in a rush to grab as much as they could of the scarce metals while the getting was good, thus making the shortage even more critical." Sample: by the time dogfood canners were told they could have no more tin, they were sitting on a huge pile of cans already lithographed, which they asked permission to use up. WPB graciously let them go ahead, though Army rations could have gone into those cans just as well as into the new ones the Army was ordering. Says Anderson, in mild defense...
...wants a new, over-all review of all Army & Navy specifications, with particular emphasis upon using more secondary, reprocessed metals. He also believes that castings could replace metal-wasting machining operations in many cases, that silver could bear much more of the load borne by copper, nickel and tin...