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...Turndown. One reason for the easing of steel supplies is the dwindling demand from makers of appliances and other consumer durables, who are not even taking the metal allotted to them. Another is that the peak has been passed in defense-plant construction. But builders, who would like to use steel for many another project, are still hamstrung by restrictions on nondefense building (see Controls...
...other U.S. male. The play does not sufficiently cut two ways because Charles never seems sufficiently pulled two ways, never really seems involved in a fight against a job, only in a fierce struggle for one. And -a touch not in the book-if Charles's turndown of a fancy country-club bid is meant to show his independence, it only shows the play's lack of it. Charles must be made as "sympathetic" as possible: where material success is concerned, Point of No Return has none of its hero's misgivings...
...loan to make him the nation's fourth producer of aluminum (TIME, Oct. 1) when Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman blocked the loan. Chapman did not like some things he had heard about the Harvey company's work for the Navy during World War II. Bitter at the turndown, Harvey grudgingly went to the giant Anaconda Copper Mining Co. with a proposal. He knew that Anaconda was eager to find a steady source of aluminum for its fabricating subsidiaries. Would Anaconda like to buy control of the subsidiary Harvey had set up in Montana for his aluminum project? Anaconda...
...almost three years, Mrs. Ellen Knauff had been knocking at the door, trying to get into the U.S. All she got was a turndown; all newsmen could learn from tight-lipped Immigration officials was that she was considered a "bad security risk" (TIME...
...decisions, the cabinet's turndown to the U.N. bid for ground forces stirred up the greatest reaction in & out of Canada. Off the record, Washington insiders called it "disappointing...