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First time Senator Bunker jumped into the news with magnesium (TIME, April 20) he had a scandal story that sizzled even long-untouchable Jesse Jones: he charged that Basic Magnesium Inc., which had contracted to build and run the plant for the Government's Defense Plants Corp., had bargained so well with Banker Jones that it stood to make a 4,280% profit on its investment. Jesse harrumphed about "statements unworthy of a U.S. Senator . . . false and misleading," and the public forgot. In any case, the exorbitancy of the fees Jesse allowed Basic Magnesium Inc. depended largely on whether...
After this the players reported to their own coaches for some tactical practice and more individual training. Several of the coaches taught their squads a couple of basic plays which were then...
Enlisted Reserve men, whenever they may be called, in general go at once into 13 weeks' basic training as privates. Here their better-than-average education should enable them to win promotion to an officers' candidate school rairly quickly. Thus the principal difference between the E.R.C. and the draft is that a man may be drafted two weeks before midyears, losing credit for the whole term, while in the Reserve he can be called only at the end of a semester...
...make such a plan work well, manufacturers will have to schedule material requirements on a flow basic (a new trick for many). And the Government will have to keep an accurate account of the materials actually available...
...watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...