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Armament production to protect East India rubber, tin, oil, is of immediate defense concern to the U.S. So is the fact that Universal's new, rapidly expanding rifle and machine-gun capacity could, in case of need, be turned to making guns for U.S. defense. Equally important, providing many a valuable lesson for other emergency producers, is the way Universal sped into production...
Because the U.S. is no more self-sufficient in giraffes, kangaroos and tapirs than it is in silk and tin, U.S. zoomen were greatly worried last week. Animal importations from Africa and Asia have dwindled with war's spread, now threaten to stop completely. Even South American animals are held up by lack of cargo space...
...certain areas where it hadn't started. One of those areas is a place called the Pacific Ocean-one of the largest areas of the earth. . . . There happened to be a place in the South Pacific where we had to get a lot of things-rubber, tin, and so forth and so on, down in the Dutch Indies, the Straits Settlements and Indo-China. And we had to get the Australian surplus of meat and wheat and corn for England...
Organizer and leader of the band is Sergeant Herbert Bernfeld, who as Herbie Fields used to play tenor saxophone and clarinet in Raymond Scott's Quintet. Among the band's 14 other members. Tin Pan Alleymen all, are Private Morton Kahn, who led and pounded the piano in Gerry Morton's Society Band; Private Don Matteson, trombonist for Jimmy Dorsey; Private James Morreale, Paul Whiteman trumpeter; Private Sidney Macey, the late Hal Kemp's arranger and trumpeter...
...needs), tin (20% of peacetime needs), aluminum, lead, mercury and phosphorus (almost none), rubber (none). Of such important alloy metals as antimony, chrome, nickel, manganese and tungsten, Japan produces scarcely...