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...generator at Southern California Edison's Long Beach plant was subjected to "a friendly seizure order" by WPB (to avoid legal delays), will be followed by a second unit within the month. Southern California Edison will get in return a new 80,000-kw. turbogenerator now being manufactured-and the U.S.S.R. will get its additional power supply that much earlier...
...evening, the boys in blue come back to the pool from 6:30 to 8 on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday for special instruction classes. The singing statistics have free run of the building on Wednesday nights, but they will be shifted to Tuesdays to avoid conflicts with intercollegiate contests. On Monday nights from 8 to 9:30 Faculty families and female personnel of the University give the pool some relief from its masculine overemphasis...
...directly to the Reserve banks would increase the reserves of the member banks, and thus conditions would be created in which it would be possible to raise, rather than lower, required reserve ratios. If this procedure were followed, therefore, we would find ourselves in a much stronger position to avoid trouble after the close of the war. The member banks would not have so large a volume of Government bonds which would cause them trouble if and when bond prices began to decline; and their reserve ratios would be higher, thus reducing greatly the amplitude of fluctuations in their holdings...
...capacity Orson Welles regards himself as public-relations man for the U.S. For the first time in his life he cannot avoid early deadlines. Army censors insist on seeing the Lockheed scripts two weeks ahead of time. Nelson Rockefeller, on the other hand, trusts Welles so completely that he does not even go over the South American scripts...
LONDON--Winston Churchill warned Italy by inference tonight to got out of the war to avoid "prolonged, scientific and shattering" air bombardment and said the Allies can look forward confidently to the day when Europe will be "redeemed" although they face a "stern and terrible" year...