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...best customers is Aluminum Co.. of America, whose big mill at Alcoa, Tenn., is loaded with orders for aircraft parts. Alcoa, watching TVA's firm-power sales expand, feared it might be elbowed out of the TVA reserve power on which it relies for peak-season production. (TVA withdrew 30,000 kw. from Aluminum Co. on July 1.) Alcoa welcomed TVA's promise of new capacity, but wanted still more. Proposing to build two hydro stations of its own (90,000 kw.) on the Little Tennessee, Alcoa asked the Federal Power Commission whether it claimed jurisdiction over...
...later the combination of the entrenched machine-gun and the barbed-wire entanglement, tilted the balance between the defense and the offense markedly in favor of the former. The great stabilized fronts of 1914-18 seemed to emphasize this growing power of the defense. . . . The idea reached its peak in the later writings of Liddell Hart, at one time recognized as the leading British military critic and in his early years an outstanding advocate of the offensive principle of surprise. I do not, of course, mean that any military men have ever given up the principle of the offensive...
...peak and most furious pitch of his book is reached in the life of Schlessing, a gross, uncontrollably brilliant Viennese financier, seducer, Superman, whose power is built on blackmail and near-diabolism. This story, like most others in the book, shows a virtuosity in action narrative that few detective story writers could match; its significance is that Schlessing, the tenth character, and The Pale One, the first, are the two spiritual poles of Jewry...
...visible far beyond the Chicago and Kansas City grain pits, fluttered over the whole U. S. economy. Because Latin America could no longer sell to Europe, its purchases in the U. S. fell off by $10,000,000 as early as April, have remained well under the first-quarter peak. Ecuador, for lack of foreign exchange, last week had to duck out of her reciprocal trade agreement and cut some imports by 50%. The Pan American Coffee Conference, meeting in Manhattan last week, tried to decide what to do with 924,000,000 lb. of coffee that used...
...Ohio extricated itself from the dilemma. Proudly announced by President Charles Eugene Gallagher was a scheme that got the storage problem down to three dinky (57-foot) spherical tanks, the expense down to $1,000,000, the fire hazard to zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed to 1/600...