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...When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted to ask . . . how Ickes first got into the chips. . . . He said I had been a sports writer. . . . The answer is that he was a sports writer himself . . . but such a punk that he never made the grade. . . . Ickes has been extremely sensitive . . . but when he is doing the punching he draws the foul line down around the kneecaps. . . . Impecunious Johnny One-Suit . . . proud to collaborate with the hoodlum government of Chicago...
...last winter, contracted with Phelps Dodge Corp. to supply tin for its new experimental smelter (TIME, Dec. 11). Meanwhile American Metal Co. Ltd. and American Smelting and Refining Co. also built pilot plants, and learned how to process Bolivian ore (which is high-cost, low-grade) with no admixture of Malayan. By last week it was pretty clear that, besides accumulating a 75,000-ton stockpile of smelted tin, the U. S. must be prepared (in case Britain and Malaya go under) to smelt Bolivian ore on a big scale...
...High-grade manganese is all abroad, but the greatest supply of low-grade manganese in the world is near Butte, Mont. In World War I, U. S. producers went to work on their submarginal deposits, by 1918 were turning out 35% of U. S. needs. After the Armistice the cheaper product of foreign mines drove down U. S. production to the vanishing point. Last week from big Anaconda Copper came word that U. S. manganese would go to market again. Awarded to Anaconda by the new Government-owned Metal Reserve Co. was a contract for 240,000 tons of manganese...
...large part of his service on such details as military attaché to Liberia, professor of military science and tactics at Negro colleges. The other is his son, Lieutenant B.O. Davis Jr., who was graduated from West Point in 1936, the fourth of his race to make the grade at the Army school since the first Negro West Pointer (Henry O. Flipper) got his diploma in 1877. Graduated 35th in his class of 276 at the Military Academy, young Lieutenant Davis could not really hope to command white officers in a peacetime army, is now instructor...
...satire. Perelman did not burn out, but he has cooled off. Having become a money-earning professional, he collaborated on a novel (Parlor, Bedlam & Bath) and a play (All Good Americans); gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films; with his wife wrote the script for Ambush, a Grade-B production which was one of the best shows of 1939; and settled down on a farm in Pennsylvania's Bucks County which he bought from Michael Gold. More recently he has run a radio show (Author, Author); and for seven years he has been writing pieces...