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Instead higher returns may be granted to some companies by revising the production quotas which have been in effect for some time. Under this system a company now gets 12? per pound for anything produced up to its allotment, but gets 17? for any additional copper. By reducing quotas downward the Government can in effect pay more for copper while maintaining the 12? fetish...
...been falling steadily for five years (TIME. Nov. 17). Frederic H. Lahee, chief Sun Oil geologist, points out that in 1937 almost 1,700,000 barrels of oil were discovered for every wildcat hole drilled. By 1941 the figure was only 622,000 barrels. If this downward trend continues for another five years, new oil discoveries will fall below the amount used and oil reserves may begin a disastrous decline...
...from want [is] freedom from mass unemployment, plus freedom from penury for those unable to work. We state these things as 'rights'-not because the world owes any man a living, but because unless man succeeds in filling these primary needs, his only development is backward and downward, his only growth malignant, and his last resource...
...traditional egg on a glider's duralumin fuselage. But the heated air rises, forming the welcome "thermals" which keep a glider aloft. The special glider dashboard instrument is a variometer, which shows a pilot whether he is in one of these upward thermals or in a downward air current...
Silent Flight. Somewhere above 1,000 ft., gliders are turned loose to soar, dropping a wing to lose altitude quickly, gliding downward to gain speed (which may reach 90 m.p.h.), or "picking up a thermal" to rise. Sometimes they even fly in formation. Another man-made addition to flight skill is the complete loop-the-loop, as exciting in a glider as in the oldtime barnstormers' crates. (Two pilots practicing a dog fight at Twentynine Palms -not a usual glider function -crashed and were killed when their wings touched.) A glider pilot, landing, keeps his plane balancing...