Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ways this week. All over the U.S., housewives dug into closets, came up with old aluminum pots & pans for defense.* OPM hoped the drive would turn up 15-20,000,000 lb. of scrap aluminum which could either be converted directly into defense products or used to replace virgin metal which would then be freed for aircraft production. This is the aluminum equivalent of some 4,000 fighter planes or 740 big bombers. The scrap will be sold to smelters through the Treasury Procurement Division. Money from the sale will go toward Army and Navy trainer planes...
Death had a joke in store for the celebrant of girlhood, roses and death. Gathering roses one day for a lovely virgin from Egypt (dry source of all cults of death), he scratched his hand. Shortly afterwards it became clear that Rilke had leukemia, a hideously painful disease of the white corpuscles. This century's great minstrel of death, who dreaded the very word, met it in complete integrity, refusing anesthetic, floated upon the sumptuous hospitality of friends whom he refused to see. "Except for the presence of the doctor and the nurse he died, as he had lived...
Among the Fund's directors were William Z. Foster (then secretly a Communist), Benjamin Gitlow (then a Communist tycoon ), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (I.W.W.), the Reverend Harry Ward (Union Theological Seminary), Robert Morss Lovett (now Government secretary of the Virgin Islands). Though the Garland Fund threw money right & left (mostly left), instead of being depleted, it grew. (It held First National Bank of the City of New York stock during the '20s.) Sixteen years after Charles Garland decided to give away his million, the Fund was close to $2,500,000. Some of this paper profit was wiped...
...aluminum a year to stay in business. The steel industry, using ¾ Ib. of aluminum (as a cleanser) to make a ton of steel, is now using about 30,000 tons. When steel uses aluminum, it uses it up completely, and around a quarter of its products require virgin metal. But die castings need only scrap, and represent a scrap reservoir. Yet all steel has an A-10 or better priority rating on aluminum, while die castings limp along in the Bs, getting only 10 to 40% of their 1940 consumption...
West from the Virgin Islands toward Haiti stood S.S. America, a thwarted ship in a restricted ocean. Biggest (27,000 gross tons) and fanciest merchantman ever to slide down a U.S. way, she had been conceived by the Maritime Commission for the blue-ribbon North Atlantic passenger trade. But before her birth was complete, World War II and the Neutrality Act closed in her horizons. Since she left her fitting-out dock ten months ago, her life has been a pleasant tedium of Caribbean cruises. Last week adventure crooked an imperious finger to this immaculate loafer of the Antilles...