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Abuilding now in 39 of the nation's shipyards are 711 merchant ships. They are being built fast-two to three months ahead of schedule-and they are being built well. The pattern of construction has been standardized, and U.S. merchantmen now being built have a uniformity like that of U.S. cars...
...mind the selection of stories for this issue even errs in the direction of material too clearly viewed and soberly treated. Robert Clurman develops skillfully a conventional genre comedy of a Mexican priest's misadventure with a pattern of simple reversal for its form. Bowden Broadwater's "A Rat in Her Arras," in the vein of "The Little Foxes," is a series, but not a climax, of frustrated family plottings. Although long, the story has more complications than it can particularize, and is somewhat burdened by direct exposition. Both Mr. Broadwater and Mr. Clurman, however, can realize the words...
...unexplored coast, the scientists' plane reached the limit of its range, was forced to turn back from an inviting horizon. Distant bays and points, they noticed, were reflected in the sky. And because the reflecting moisture layers were higher than the plane, they clearly outlined the coastal pattern well below the flyers' horizon. Though observed before in polar regions, this phenomenon has never until now been trusted by map makers in sketching unseen lands...
...Roosevelt's Mediation Board, under the miraculously skillful management of bushy-headed William Hammatt Davis, had done a champion job: they had built up a great structure in which the public, industry and labor alike had confidence, were now within sight of roofing this house with a definite pattern of dispute settlement, under which all disputants would automatically turn to mediation machinery, would never strike. As last week opened, Davis was ready to nail on the weather vane: for the first time in seven months not a single actual strike case was before the Board...
Through all this humming anthill strides the well-tailored figure of the owner-manager (27% of Consolidated's stock), imposing the Fleet pattern on men and things. Rube Fleet does not expect other people to know as much as he knows, but he expects them to know the same kind of thing. Because he has a prodigious memory for figures, he thinks his executives ought to know the capabilities of the plant's fire-fighting apparatus, the floor space of their offices, the date of many an unimportant happening in the past...