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Wood has one advantage over all other motor fuels; it is available locally in all the gasoline-rationed areas. It does, however, require a stovelike generator to convert the wood into combustible gases for the engine. This means a new diversion of semiprecious light steel or cast iron. The generator can be mounted on the rear bumper, the trunk compartment or the rumble seat, can be charged with coal or charcoal, but more cheaply with a charge of equal parts of sawdust and chopped or "hogged" wood. A carefully controlled draft prevents complete combustion of the wood while generating carbon...
...oilmen "from Missouri," were taking no chances. The President warned the Eastern seaboard that householders had better prepare for fuel-oil rationing. Ickes went beyond words to action, halted all deliveries of heating oil until Sept. 15 to build up stocks, warned 400,000 homeowners who burn oil in converted coal furnaces that they may not be allowed any oil at all and had better convert back to coal right away. So far, he said, fewer than 30,000 have done...
Solution on Paper. When President Roosevelt made Donald Nelson the nation's production boss last January, he provided a solution-on paper. Donald Nelson had full power to convert U.S. factories to war, build new plants, gather up the nation's raw materials. Most important, he could allocate the materials as he saw fit among Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, civilians...
...After two years of fruitless effort to convert Holland's Germanic adults to Naziism, both German and Dutch Nazis two months ago launched an energetic campaign to win Hollanders through their children, to whose natural barbarism the color and mumbo jumbo of Naziism might appeal. "Führer" Anton Adrian Mussert's Dutch imitation of Hitler's Youth Movement, Nationale Jeugdstorm, has doubled the number of its demonstrations and marches, has opened new offices all over Holland to enlist recruits. To show off the recruits, Sunday-schoolish Hoofdstormer (Youth Movement chief) van Geelkerken last week planned...
Main job of SWPC is to convert the little fellows into war-goods production. To do this the agency will sign contracts directly with the Army & Navy, then subcontract to little plants best equipped to do the work. Some midget factories will pool their facilities. In other cases SWPC will finance needed machinery and equipment (if it can be bought). If all these small plants were smokestack deep in war work, they might produce more than one-third as much as Detroit's amazing war giants...