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Nuclear fission used to be a subject upon which a writer could simply crank up and let loose, but no longer . . . Space flight is still good for a yarn, but already one university offers a course in theoretical astrogation...
...cinders, Harvard superiority faded. Only in the 40-yard dash were Mikkola's runners able to keep up with their opponents. In this race, Pat McCormick, Murray Pearlstoin, an ineligible transfer student, and Harvey Thayer grabbed 1-2-3, although some observers thought Thayer had hit the yarn first...
There were few finer catches in the Government's Alien Property net than North American Rayon and American Bemberg Corps. Between them, the onetime partly German-controlled companies made about 8% of all U.S.-made rayon yarn. But North American and Bemberg also proved to be a spiny, troublesome haul. The Dutch Algemeene Kunstziide Unie, N.V. (AKU) complained that the companies really belonged to it. Later the board of directors, representing the minority stockholders, began to complain (TIME, March 8). They wanted the Office of Alien Property to give up its control of the companies...
Among the minority stockholders that will share the companies' future profits (profits last year: $5.7 million) is AKU, which still holds a minority interest. There were strings tied to Beaunit's deal: it may not turn the two companies' rayon yarn into any products made by Beaunit (last year Beaunit made a net profit of 14.4% on $41 million in sales). Also to protect present customers of North American and Bemberg, OAP insisted that the companies continue to supply the customers with yarn for the next five years...
Mister Roberts. Rowdy, romantic, often hilarious yarn of life on a cargo ship during-but far from-the war (TIME, March...