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This deal won her the title "Chrome Queen," convinced her that the chrome world was at her feet. So she spent her time nailing down an option on huge Alaskan chrome deposits, running up $700-monthly telephone bills, nightclubbing. Then she stormed Washington, surprised everybody but herself by landing the biggest chromite contract ever: $846,000 for 25,000 tons. Then came trouble. The Alaskan mine was under 30 feet of snow, could be mined only at terrific cost. Dot flopped on her contract, got back to her California mines with only $11 in her worn purse...
Since the beginning of the war, the AFS has changed its program of enlistment slightly, easing the financial burden on those who find the journey to Africa costly. Whereas formerly the volunteer had to join for one year, with the option of a second, and had to pay all except living expenses, he now will sign for two years, and will receive a 20-dollar-a-month salary...
...still did not know what Tales of Manhattan was all about, though he had decided that the first episode should be a short play called The Marshall by Ferenc Molnar. Molnar gave Sam an option gratis. Eagle had read some 250 other short plays and stories, but as things turned out a good deal of the film is, in the strictly legal sense, original. Ben Hecht ducoed the Molnar play into the triangle. Donald Ogden Stewart and Alan Campbell whipped up the first act of Ladislaus Fodor's play Burberry into the brief burlesque. Two other Ladislauses, Vadnai...
Over the weekend it was also learned that students both in Cambridge and at Yale enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve had received their 60-day notice. This meant that the Marine Corps was warning its reservists that it may take up its option of emergency conditions...
This is in addition to the 125 communications officers who are also arriving. The Navy has an option to add up to 875 more...