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Having narrowly escaped permanent freezing by the vetoed Fulmer bill (TIME, Aug.11), the vast U.S. cotton surplus last week began to melt, sent a glacial trickle towards a potentially vast war market. The Department of Agriculture announced that 1,500,000 bales of Government-owned, 1937-crop cotton are now available for export at 13¼ a lb., 4? below the current market price...
...Oswego, N. Y. There the 369th anti-aircraft regiment, a Negro National Guard unit from Harlem, is having a year's training. The men of the 369th get more from their band than most regiments do. Almost every night they hear a jam session, almost hot enough to melt the icicles on the recreation barracks. The band's leaders are Sergeant Reuben B. Reeves and Private Otis Johnson-onetime trumpeters in Cab Galloway's and Don Redman's orchestras...
...this. But for Aline Bernstein it was quite natural. Her writing combines a theatre worker's feeling for mannered grace in gesture and interiors with the lithe conversational style of a skilled manual worker, a cultivated peasant. Hers is sentimental writing, but it is good enough to melt in the mouth...
...Dealers like Leon Henderson, fervent Weir-haters all, agreed with his criticism of the Administration for having been so slow. Their common ground: U. S. pig-iron production has lagged behind the steelmaking rate, forced steel men to use more & more scrap in each melt. But steel operations, at capacity for weeks, are already running ahead of the scrap supply. Best evidence of the scrap squeeze: in depressed 1938, the industry melted 18,000,000 tons of scrap, of which 10,000,000 tons were piled up out of waste material at its plants, 8,000,000 tons bought. Last...
...younger than Earth, then Mars appears much older. It is smaller and colder than Earth, has lost most of its atmosphere and water. But a thin atmosphere it still has, perhaps containing a little oxygen. And Mars has a little water, as the white polar caps show. These caps melt in the Martian summer, accumulate again in winter. The excitement over possible Martian inhabitants was started in the 19th Century by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli, who described hazy streaks on the surface, called them canali. This Italian word means "channels," was erroneously translated "canals," which connotes intelligent engineering...