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Details of the latest developments are under lock & key, but World War II has been the making of indium: Indium is a once-rare metal that even in very small quantities makes soft metals hard, dull ones bright, and does many an odd job in stretching the supply of critical materials. It is silver white, malleable, ductile, soft, more than twice as heavy as iron, lighter than lead...
...Army & Navy wanted to take over the colleges lock, stock & barrel.* They proposed to pick the students and prescribe their courses, eliminate everything from the curriculum but technical and essential professional studies...
...last week Berkeley Bunker came up with some news that really put B.M. into the big time. He said he had heard "reliably" that huge Anaconda Copper Co. was buying B.M. "lock, stock and barrel" for $75,000,000, that its former owners were getting $1,000,000 from Defense Plants Corp. on the deal, although the Government's bill for building the plant would now run over $100,000,000 rather than $70,000,000. Even so, said Senator Bunker darkly, "the Government can consider itself lucky to get out of this thing...
Said Lady Astor, U.S.-born M.P., at Cliveden: "I would not mind sitting on a platform with a Russian Communist, but I would not be seen dead with a British Communist." Snapped the London Daily Worker: "Lock her up." Cried U.S. Communist Earl Browder from a platform in Manhattan's Union Square: Open a second front now, for the United Nations' sake. Snapped the New York Times: "The silliest spectacle we have seen in a long time is that of American Communists . . . holding a mass meeting in Union Square to demand that the military strategy of the United...
...When Volunteer Hunt always lost the screws to his musket during lock drill...