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...Cover) Last week William Allen White sat on the porch of his cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park-as he has almost every summer for the last 30 years-and stared thoughtfully at the vast expanse of Longs Peak that rises in the southern distance...
...weather always comes up on the other side of that mountain. The White cabin stands at 9,000 ft. above sea level; Longs Peak rises in its square-topped majesty 5,255 ft. above that; and north and south the peaks of the Rockies repeat like mirrored reflections in the depthless blue air -the Never Summer Range on the Continental Divide, Mount Alice and Flattop, Estes Cone and Specimen, Thunderbolt, Mummy, Sawtooth and Nimbus-some of the more than 10,000-ft. mountains that lie within the Park and give it the peaceful air of being...
...Shuksan outing last week went three competent climbers: H. Karl Boyer, 28, of Seattle, who fought in the Spanish Civil War; Anne Cedarquist, 22, a chemist who once climbed California's hazardous Lassen Peak; Faye Plank, 37, a Bremerton librarian. Miss Cedarquist had climbed Rainier twice this year, Boyer once. They expected to be up to Shuksan's peak and safely down by nightfall...
...faced war last year with six destroyers, less than 300 military airplanes and an active militia of just over 4,000 men, had come a good piece. Minister of Munitions and Supply C. D. Howe told the House of Commons: "Canada's industrial tempo is at its highest peak in history." Airplane production, he said, was already at the rate of 1,300 a year and would reach 4,320 next year. Eleven types were already in production, and more on the drafting board. When plant equipment is completed, the country will produce 30 tanks a month. Also planned...
...World War II prices as a whole have not run away. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index for 28 basic commodities was last week only 106.8, less than seven points above pre-war August 1939, and well down from last September's peak of 127.2. Meanwhile the price index of finished manufactured goods held practically level. The industrial raw materials index was 66.5 before the war, 72.3 in September, only 70.8 three weeks ago. Hence most businessmen do not yet fear runaway prices. Actually, they are more alarmed by the idea of price-fixing by the New Deal...