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...encouraged research and experiment in the use of alternative processes for the production of aluminum from low-grade bauxite, or other sources such as alunite. In fact, it discouraged them. A report recommending alunite as an aluminum source was prepared by the Bureau of Mines more than six weeks ago. OPM has not yet acted...
...them get up and walk, but many just lie there. Hope's view of it, after running a tank into the colonel's car: "Me trying to be a corporal! I'll be lucky if they don't try to take away my citizenship." Grade-A Hopeism, after the tank accident: "Terribly sorry about...
...have just read the letter by Ann Gardner. I have been reading TIME since I was six. I am seven now. I have just been promoted to the fourth grade...
...Brazil, which gets 58.49% of the U.S. quota, surplus coffee is still being systematically burned (54,000 bags last month). Yet Brazil's standard grade, Santos No. 4, has nearly doubled in price since last August. Colombia (19.8% of the quota), producing valuable special grades, raised its minimum prices nine times last winter. Brazilian growers and speculators, with 2,300,000 bags of quota coffee still to ship, are holding it back, waiting for still higher prices. Meanwhile shipping space is getting scarce and ocean freight costs are mounting. Brazil is also toying with the idea of setting...
About a year and a half ago Ulsterman Louis MacNeice, who has written an Irish lion's share of grade-A contemporary English verse, came to the U.S. to earn a quiet living and see what he could...