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...joined with Republicans and Isolationists in ripping his bill to shreds. Missouri's Short wanted to know who would "assume the responsibility for the robbery and the rape and murder that might be committed." New York's Isolationist Ham Fish offered an amendment (defeated) to provide "dugouts, tin helmets, asbestos suits and gas masks for the members of Congress, the Chief Executive, and the Justices of the Supreme Court . . . air-raid sirens on all public buildings except the Department of Labor. ..." Well over a third of the chamber kept out of the discussion and the voting-not knowing...
...East Coast ports. Since ships waste 30-35 days going to the East Coast and returning to the Pacific, such cargoes now will be landed on the West Coast, sent overland by rail. Important among them are rubber (estimated to amount to 354,000 tons this year), and tin (45,000 tons) from the Far East. Furthermore, nitrates (300,000 tons) and copper (300,000 tons) from South America's West Coast may soon be landed in the South, shipped north by rail...
Automakers released to U.S. defense last week an estimated 70,000 skilled workmen, 1,380,000 tons of steel (nearly 2% of U.S. capacity), 124,850 tons of rubber, 5,500 tons of aluminum, 29,040 tons of copper, 2,640 tons of tin, 60,170 tons of lead, 5,275,600 Ib. of nickel. Two days later they made available an additional $35,000,000 of machine tooling, 15,000,000 more man-hours of production, much of their best engineering talent...
...used 80% of all rubber consumed in the U.S., 51% of malleable iron, 34.2% of lead, 18.1% of steel, 14% of grey iron. In the field of essential defense materials where the pinch is greatest, it used 23% of the nation's nickel, 13.7% of copper, 11.4% of tin, 9.7% of aluminum. Now defense needs some of these men and materials...
With the possibility of a second national registration and a lowered draft age, more and more American youths are confronted with the reality of the draft. To many who enjoyed playing with cannons and tanks when an open stretch of carpet was a Hungarian plain, a tin helmet will be the realization of a childhood dream, Many others, however, will find ground training dull, uninteresting, and not even valuable as a new experience. For these, the opportunity to join the Army Flying Corps is a challenge to courage and a possibility worth serious consideration...