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...purposes of war, U. S. steel capacity is mostly of the wrong kind. Of its enormous furnace power, 90% is open-hearth, for run-of-the-mill steel. Only 2% is in electric furnaces, which are hotter, can be more precisely controlled, turn out steel ingots of the finest grade. Many an aircraft part, the guts of internal combustion engines, light armor plate for tanks, tools for Defense industry must (or should) be rolled from electric-furnace ingots. As defense orders pile up, steelmen have encountered a growing demand for high-grade, high-cost, electric-furnace steel...
...least some readers, Jorgen Thestrup mysteriously disappears, and Madame. Dorthea divides her time between her children, household duties, settling the estate, and flashbacks on her married life. All these domesticities are reported in an abundance which Tolstoy could have made wonderful and which Sigrid Undset's high-grade Dorothy Dix tone of voice makes tedious...
...last week Japan was able to show Mussolini just how grateful he ought to be. Japan was short of scrap; her steel activity was being choked down; furnaces that run on high-grade U. S. scrap operated at as little as 50% of capacity. Japan the scrap buyer had lost time to make...
...loving Ben Quintana started playing with paints in third grade, has already done murals for schools at Cochiti and Santa Fe, an Indian trading post at Albuquerque. Ben wanted to use his prize to buy "something for my family," but his father vetoed the suggestion. Like many another winner of an art award, Ben will spend his prize money on further study...
Across the Atlantic, Canada prepared to receive Frau Engelbert Dollfuss, widow of the Nazi-murdered Austrian Chancellor, quizzed but finally admitted Grade Fields...