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...this time the U.S. seizure of Axis ships in American waters. There was delay. One newsman growled, as the clock hands slowly scissored past noon: "Those damned Italians! They can't even scuttle a ship properly!" Laughing, the reporters filed down to the Secretary's blue-carpeted, leather-chaired reception room, watched him enter in excellent spirits. Hour and a half earlier he had released texts of his answers to the German and Italian protests, couching his Tennessee-mule-kick "No" in stilted diplomatic language. He had little to say, but his eyes twinkled: after eight years...
Last week the Maritime Commission received from the Office of Production Management a list of "essential" and "nonessential" imports which soon will be translated into cargo priorities. Classed as essential were the strategic and critical materials (rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper, quinine, coffee, sugar, cocoa. On the nonessential list were frillier items which the U. S. imported to the amount of $200,000,000 last year: spices, wine, tea, furs, coconut oil, palm oil, fibres and burlap. By rationing shipping space just as machine tools and aluminum already are being rationed...
Until 1905, milk bottles and fruit jars were made by blowers who worked molten glass into bubbles, dropped the bubbles into molds, huff-puffed them into shape. The most leather-lunged glass blowers could turn out no more than 800 bottles a day. Then one of them named Michael J. Owens, even longer on brains than on wind, built a machine which produced 30,000 a day. His invention made glassware a mass-production industry overnight. It also molded one of the tightest patent controls ever known in U. S. manufacturing...
...Most of them carried Springfields slung over their shoulders. A few also dragged two-wheeled machine guns and ammunition carts that Marines call "Cole-carts' (after their inventor, Major General Eli Kelley Cole). In every man's mind was a still, small thought implanted by the leather-faced sergeants: work, not magic, makes a soldier...
...reconstruction of the entire U. ,S. economy. He could see this clearly because he knew what would happen to U. S. business when 5,000,000 more pairs of shoes a year were suddenly ordered-he could see the hundreds of factories, the machine-tool plants, the nails, thread, leather, the railroad carloads of materials. He multiplied shoes by the 18,000-odd separate items he must buy for defense, from guns to butter, and got one sure answer: a revitalization of U. S. industry and therefore...