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...from Italy and Spain, chrome from Turkey, manganese from the U. S. S. R. Of these the U. S. had to worry only about mercury and manganese. But mercury is still available from Spain, and manganese is plentiful in Cuba, India, Brazil, the African Gold Coast, even (in low-grade form...
...wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
...pictures admitted to places where they wouldn't otherwise have been received"; van Gogh was "a crazy galoot who cut off his own ear to spite a woman"; Gauguin was a failure who ran off to the South Seas because he couldn't make the grade, who painted distorted pictures over which "the shapely natives had every reason to bring libel suits." "At their worst," said Mr. Coburn firmly, "[their paintings] resembled the crude elemental expressions which nitwits affix to sidewalks, barn doors and elsewhere-especially elsewhere." To him Boston was "a community which today possesses the best...
Head machinist for the Exposition Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Ga. is a wiry, hawk-nosed little man (5 ft. 4 in.), with dark blue eyes, greasy, dexterous hands, a fourth-grade education, six grown children, a passion for hunting rabbits with bow & arrow, and some "gold needles," which are divining-rod-like devices for locating gold...
...high-grade steel that Disston makes in its own furnace has other uses too. Reputedly the leading U. S. private maker of light tank armor, Disston, to handle war orders, put up $250.000 worth of new buildings in 1938-39, has virtually completed a new $300,000 armor-plate plant. Disston saw $1.250,000 worth of war orders held up by its strike last week. Stopped cold was a rush order for armored plane seats for fighting planes now in service in France. Interrupted were U. S. Army orders for armored scout cars, gun shields, light armor plate...