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...Strawberry Blonde" is a nice bit of escape back into the barber-shop days before the first World War, when men inhaled birch beer like coke and the biggest blood-suckers were only leeches. James Cagney in his usual punching self demonstrated that the world is his with two fists and a correspondence course in dentistry. He picked up an alluring nurse--Olivia de Haviland, in a swell park scene, but doesn't like her. Instead the cockney Irishman chases exciting Rita Hayworth, the strawberry blonde, and isn't fast enough to land her. But you knew he would marry...
...added that no priorities need be established at present for steel: that present production could even be increased if needed; and that anyone who can't get enough steel need only come to Washington. He did note a "small" shortage of coke, a "slight" shortage of pig-iron ingots, and a need to shorten the closed-for-repairs periods normal in steel furnace operation...
...were the part of the report the President had skipped. First "if" was pig iron. Pig output must be increased by 1,675,000 tons in 1941-42. Second "if" was coke: its output, already a bottleneck, must be increased by 8,031,000 tons. Third "if" was allocation of orders: maximum production, said Dunn, can be reached only if orders are spread evenly throughout the industry. Fourth "if" was a shift back to Bessemer steel: little-used old Bessemer ovens should be put to making steel for barbed wire, nails, low-grade pipe...
...observers than any struck plant was the touch-&-go situation at Lackawanna, N. Y., where the long rumble of C. I. O.'s struggle with Bethlehem Steel was gathering into a roar. C. I. O. steelworkers, asserting that 300 fellow employes had been locked out of a coke plant in a dispute over a wage increase, voted to call a general strike in protest. A walkout at Lackawanna would affect 14,000 men, tie up millions of dollars of defense orders...
...more hope for the South in booms like that at Birmingham, Ala., whose steel mills were still operating at 100% capacity last week and expanding too (TIME, Nov. 25). Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. will soon make 140-inch plate (for shipbuilding) for the first time. To crack a coke bottleneck, T. C. I. has built 73 new ovens. The Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. planned to reopen 87 old beehive ovens unused for over 20 years...