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...weeks & months, Standard's name had been taken in vain. Name-calling reached a peak when Senator Harry S. Truman shouted "Treason!" (TIME, April 6) on the occasion of Thurman Arnold's charges. Now it was Standard's turn to refute the charges and last week the company talked back-under the grudging auspices of the Senate Patents Committee...
Steel output steadied at least 5% below peak operating capacity. The recent re-rating of high priority orders has done little to help distribution and many a small steelmaker beefs about precious time lost in filling out scads of WPB forms and questionnaires. Power output is still one of the bright spots in production with U.S. utilities pumping out record amounts of juice each week...
...Summer School which reached its peak this July with a total of 4167 students, male and female, is a far cry from those botany classes, conducted by the new-famous Professor Asa Gray. With 964 women to entertain the 2,000 undergraduates, this summer session is a refreshing non-Harvardlike phenomenon...
...other rings of the Navy's target. Most important of them passes through the island of Guadalcanal, said to be the only spot on the Solomons where a big system of air-dromes could be established. For the rest, the Solomons are precipitously mountainous (highest peak 10,000 feet), bordered with miasmic mangrove swamps, inhabited by ebony-black natives with an incurable habit of roasting and eating white visitors...
Snake Sutton is a hard-muscled, sensitive, moral dimwit who climbs, tooth & nail, from social dereliction (a childhood among swamp Negroes) to the throat-cutting peak of local business and society (a timber firm of his own, a blueblood marriage). Then he goes back again. On the way up, he has an affair with a bordello keeper (part real, part Hollywood) and a fascinating raftsman's apprenticeship to a gigantic veteran of the rivers. He is the center, also, of some superb fights, crooked and raw deals, and river adventures...