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...terrific effort attains an aluminum ingot capacity of 600,000 tons (up 420,000 tons from 1940) by next year, and cuts off all aluminum for civil and indirect military uses, it may have barely enough for direct military needs. Such was the consensus of testimony last week before Senator Harry Truman's committee investigating the state of U.S. defense. But what really interested the committee was why the Army, Navy, defense production agencies and the aluminum industry itself all failed to recognize that fact last fall...
...before the railroads' belated call for new equipment, everybody was fighting for steel, plant space, new machinery. Railroad equipment builders long since had hedged against stagnant car sales by filling up their plants with orders for shot & shell. The builders had 42,000 new cars on order: their consensus was that if new orders were placed right away and 0PM gave them steel priorities, they could turn out another 40-45,000, or a total of 82-87,000 in the next year. Difficulties: 1) this would take steel away from other industries which need it; 2) Budd...
...Consensus of opinion at a forum on "Is the Soviet an Enigma" in the Lowell House Common Room monday night was that Communism has greatly improved many aspects of Russian life. Nicholas Slonimski, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, stated that music audiences in the Soviet have increased many fold since the Czarist regime was overthrown. A member of the Communist Party gave statistics to show that Soviet industrial power has been growing steadily, particularly in the last ten years, and regeneration of Soviet science was emphasized by Dirk Strulk...
...articles on England in book form, entitled "Report on England." These dispatches were written from England in November, and caused quite a stir by their claim that "Hitler had London in September, but didn't know it." Mr. Ingersoll wasn't there at the time, and the general consensus is that those who were there didn't know it either. The evidence he adduces is that on September 8 water mains were "smashed right and left, all over town." "The streets were full of rubble, blown up from direct hits, filled with glass and brick and furniture, plaster, piping. . . . Whole...
...Bizzell next August. Oklahoma's Sooners (named for the settlers who rushed into the Territory sooner than the zero hour in 1889) are tough. Few years ago six Sooner athletes caused a scandal by flogging a campus newspaper correspondent whose dispatches they did not like. Last week the consensus was that Sooners would think twice before trying such tricks on rawboned, red-haired Joseph Brandt...