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...piece of neatly machined aluminum alloy. It represented, said Wright, a revolutionary advance in the technique of working duralumin, which meant development of a cylinder head that will give U.S. planes speed, altitude, load and range superiority over the Axis...
...estimates were knocked out by U-boats prowling the East Coast. The East normally uses 1,600,000 bbl. a day, 90% shipped by tanker; now tankers would carry only a fraction of the load, and there was no way to fill the gap. The railroads, working valiantly, got last week's shipments up to 640,000 bbl. a day (see p. 73). Pipelines and inland waterways added only 175,000 bbl. a day. Until new transportation miracles could be performed, the East was out of luck. Even under this week's rationing system, the East will still...
...increasing load on childhood is not all to the good. Industry has absorbed more thousands than ever before and, with evacuees still straggling back to bombed areas, child labor gives authorities many a worry. Juvenile delinquency continues to rise; petty larceny is a main complaint. Boys twelve years old have even been caught stealing soap. Plymouth gasped recently when it learned of a 14-year-old boy who stole money even though earning ?9 a week, of another who drank nine pints of beer each night...
...passenger service for ordinary citizens are imminent, said ODT's Joseph Eastman. U.S. railroads, which last year handled 25,000,000,000 passenger miles, will have to handle more & more of the 15,000,000,000 highway-bus passenger miles, not to mention part of the private automobile load (last year some 250,000,000,000 passenger miles). In Britain, every railroad station now hangs out a sign saying "Is your journey really necessary...
...producers, the House committee's proposal was more lenient than the Treasury's, for its higher excess-profits tax (94% compared to 75%) penalizes efficient businesses that are getting ahead in the world and its lower normal and surtaxes (40% compared with 55%) lighten the relative tax load on businesses that are sot in their ways. The proposal of the National Association of Manufacturers, for a 100% excess-profits levy (TIME, March 23), was even more calculated to freeze efficiency and competition out of industry...