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...Textile mills, powerhouses and other industries burned peat and wood instead of coal. Thousands of civilians were mobilized to wield spades in the inexhaustible peat bogs of the Urals and central Russia...
Glass is now going to war in a big way as a replacement for copper, aluminum, bronze, other scarce metals. Already centrifugal pumps with impellers, plates and other parts of glass are whirring. U.S. laundresses will shortly wield electric irons having glass sole plates. Glass plumbing for private homes may be around the corner. Industrial glass plumbing is already here to stay. Recent developments include easy-to-use glass-welding gadgets so simple that ordinary maintenance employes in the U.S. food industry can be trained to repair and even to install glass plumbing. The U.S. fisherman who uses cork...
...Salvation Army, to the views of her father, Andrew Underschaft, who is almost her opposite--a millionaire munitions maker. Underschaft manages to convince her that the world is tough and poverty is not the beautiful virtue the Salvation Army maintains. He shows what power is and who wield...
...flow of supplies to Murmansk and (in the ice-free season, from April to November) to Archangel, then on by rail to the Soviet fronts. For Britain and the U.S., command of these waters may yet open the way to a front in northern Europe, where Allied manpower can wield Allied weapons against Hitler's armies...
Congress, caught in an election year with a paucity of real issues, is beginning to wield the economy axe on those agencies which it considers nonessential to the war effort. Included in that category are the NYA and CCC. Senator McKellar's Committee on Education and Labor is now considering a bill which abolishes the two and saves about $310,000,000. Despite strong Administration pressure to kill the bill, there is a very good chance that it will be passed by a Congress anxious to "get something done...