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...first onslaught, were regrouping behind the U.S. screen. East of the Osan-Chonan sector, where they had only Red infantry to fight against, the South Koreans were beginning to achieve some success. The arrival at week's end of U.S. medium tanks and heavy artillery was an enormous boost for U.S. morale...
Welcomed by the State Department as a freewheeling, free-speaking ally in the propaganda war, RFE plans to boost its power with five transmitters now on order. It intends, eventually, to speak strongly to every Communist satellite from the Baltic to the Black...
...figure again, as United Aircraft's President H. Mansfield Horner pointed out last week, would require three full years of production. It would take the aircraft engine industry a full year, said Horner, to triple today's production of 5,000 engines a year, another year to boost production sevenfold. At the end of the third year it could match the World War II peak of 260,000 engines...
...urging of rubber manufacturers, the White House ordered back into production three of the Government's twelve idle wartime synthetic-rubber plants: a butyl plant at Baton Rouge, La., a butadine plant at Houston and the Port Neches, Texas, plant which makes general-purpose rubber. This would boost synthetic-rubber production by about 20% and bring total production to about 500,000 tons a year, enough to handle all civilian and military needs, barring global war. But it would also use up heavy supplies of benzene, a component of synthetic rubber, and thus create the prospect of shortages...
...bigger glass than husky, 37-year-old John Irving Moone, president of Manhattan's Snow Crop Marketers, Inc. Last week Moone, who claims first place among U.S. orange concentrate producers, squeezed harder. For about $1,000,000, he bought 1,100 acres of Sarasota citrus groves, to boost Snow Crop's total Florida groves to about 17,000 acres. From its own groves and from purchases from independent Towers this year, Snow Crop will can almost 10 million gallons of fresh orange concentrate, putting it ahead of Bing Crosby's Minute Maid (TIME...