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...implacably: e.g., 80,000,000 bushels of flaxseed compared to last year's already catastrophic 50,000,000. In Buenos Aires, to conserve fuel, neon signs were doused, cinemas closed earlier, corn helped stoke locomotive and power-plant boilers. Autos & trucks were rationed; rationing was announced for tin plate, rubber, iron & steel, wood pulp, industrial chemicals. Newspapers' size was reduced. Tin-plate shortage caused a boom in glass and wood containers...
Last summer, sold on the idea that the 250-ft., 2,240-ton "tin can" might be the answer to the submarine menace, impressed by the performance of an 80-ft. model, Franklin Roosevelt and Navy Secretary Knox decided to have a full-sized Otter built, try her out. Mr. Knox ordered his special assistant, Joseph W. Powell, former president of United Shipyards, to go to work...
...great German romanticist, Robert Schuman, Composer William Schuman is a forthright Manhattan-born Yankee. Son of a lithographer, he started his career as a Tin-Pan Alley composer, collaborating with Frank Loesser in such gems as In Love With the Memory of You. Now he teaches composition and leads the chorus at Sarah Lawrence College...
...second-year student at the Business School, E. Wayne Tyler, Jr., has assured Harvard of Tin Pan Alley immortality following the acceptance of his tune, "The Fighting Quartermaster Corps," as an official song for the unit for the duration...
...slicing machine, the War Production Board trimmed new layers of fat off the U.S. standard of living. Out for the duration went all the kitchen gadgets which modern housewives had substituted for grandma's elbow grease: electric toasters, waffle irons, mixers, dishwashers. Out went the nursery's tin soldiers and electric trains...