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...what silk the U.S. has left WPB tightened its grip last week, even at the Army's expense. After March 1 "no silk may be used in the manufacture of parachutes until the grade and type has been approved by the Defense Supplies Corp." Evidently the Army had been wastefully using it on parachute shroud lines and cords instead of saving it for canopies. If nylon is subjected to similar husbanding, women can at least feel that their sacrifice is necessary...
This wealth consists of high-cost, low-grade ore reserves, mostly scattered throughout the West. Five years ago the U.S. sneered at the absurdity of autarchic economics when the Hermann Göring Works was built to use Germany's low-grade iron ore. The U.S. then had more rich ore than it could smelt. But in wartime every paper resource may be a real resource, and price is no object. If the U.S. is in for a long war, Ickes' adventure into autarchy may mean the difference between victory and defeat...
...Much U.S. ore, either low-grade or in small deposits, is untouched because no hitherto commercial methods* of treating it have been developed. Ickes proposes to turn small scattered iron-ore deposits into sponge iron by the gaseous reduction process, smelt the sponge iron in electric furnaces...
...wants pilot plants to test other noncommercial methods of treating low-grade copper, lead, zinc and other ores. He wants an electro-development laboratory in the Bonneville and Grand Coulee district to experiment with the local geology...
When Stevens went to Hollywood at 17 (1921), he had carried many a spear in his father's dramas, had stopped school after a year in high school, failed to make the grade at shortstop with the Oakland Acorns baseball team. Over his father's bitter remonstrances ("A cameraman's no better than a lousy stagehand"), he became the youngest and one of the best cameramen in motion pictures...