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...freight routed over railroads. Then, under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the President could seize or purchase any U.S. ship, set up priorities under which ships now hauling fruit, silk and luxuries would begin moving the 19,000,000 tons of asbestos, bauxite, copper, cork, manganese, rubber, tin, sisal, nitrates, tungsten, vanadium and other strategic materials the U.S. needs for defense production. Thousands of tons of these materials are piled on foreign docks...
With stirrup pump on his arm, tin hat on his head, but without his celebrated beard, Cartoonist David Low, whose war with the dictators began long before Britain's, was caught by a photographer padding patriotically along his London fire-watch beat...
...musician, Mr. Bennett has a dual personality. As Russell Bennett, he is a Tin Pan Alleyman who smartly arranges Broadway and Hollywood musicomedy scores, turning out 80 pages of orchestration in a day. In Broadway's louder and sweeter days, there were as many as 22 Bennett shows playing in one season.While keeping the tin pan boiling, Bennett has written-under the name of Robert Russell Bennett-an Abraham Lincoln Symphony, an opera, Maria Malibran, the fountain-&-fireworks music of the late New York World's Fair, many another serious piece. Now he can play the like...
...soon as that column got word that British Somaliland was British again, it captured Giggiga, a nondescript one-square town of tin-and straw-roofed houses. From there the troops pushed on for Harar. Soon they reached trouble. Between Giggiga and Harar lies some grim hill country. There the motor road turns and digs through narrow denies, and the hills, with their boulders and scrub, afford plenty of cover for defenders. It is the sort of country where a handful ought to be able to hold off an army...
...scarcity of refrigerator cargo space, 2) the constant bombing of gas mains, which puts a premium on food that does not have to be cooked. They also want the maximum of food in the minimum of space. This means they want as much of their meat as possible in tins, which is not the way the U. S. is accustomed to packing it. The Argentine tins meat, but can supply the British only to the extent that the U. S. can send her tin plate (which she normally gets from Britain). Meanwhile U. S. cattlemen will not feel...