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Today the 53rd annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association will take place with 500 New England educators present. Juvenlle delinquincy, war veterans' training, Basic English, and social studies are the chief subjects to be discussed today...
...Prime Minister, who is well aware that Basic's 850-word limitations could never contain the drums and tramplings of his oratory, and who makes no bones of the fact that he likes to "give a sentence a chance to breathe," accepted the first suggestion. Then he plunged into a "philosophical disquisition on a hypothetical and conjectural situation"-postwar plans of Parliament...
...Roundly condemned the contract made by Jesse Jones's Defense Plants Corp. with Basic Magnesium, Inc. to build the country's biggest magnesium plant at Las Vegas, Nev. (TIME, April...
...Alum for Basic. But the Truman sleuths found little to praise in the sorry story of Basic Magnesium. Conceived by Cleveland's Basic Refractories, Inc., the project mushroomed from a $24,000 investment in magnesium-bearing ore lands to a DPC contract to build and operate a $70,000,000 magnesium plant. Basic Magnesium, the company's operating subsidiary, stood to net a fat $840,000 yearly on the deal, although "it had no financial resources and only the most meager experience and talent." Typical result: although the magnesium-bearing ore was over 200 miles distant, the plant...
...Finally, Basic Magnesium was ousted. But it had netted a profit of $376,176 on the deal, "despite its demonstrated incompetence." Anaconda Copper was brought in. Under Anaconda, the plant got into capacity production, 112,000,000 lb. yearly. But the plant's future is dubious. Warned the Committee: "New sources of power will have to be obtained at low cost if the project is not to be written off at a loss after...