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...Last year Hudson, Nash, Packard and Studebaker cleared $12,900,000, highest since 1936 and 450% more than the year before (against a 4% profit increase for General Motors and Chrysler). And many of the independents may do 50 to 200% better this year than last. Long accustomed to pinch-dollar tactics, they are not frittering away this new-found cash. Some of it may be handed to long-starved stockholders, but the biggest part will be used in ways that will make them stronger companies when peace returns...
...Colonel Merrow E. Sorley, onetime West Point teacher of engineering and military history. Lessons will be pounded home by instructors from the Corps of Engineers. Ultimate aim: to make the task of demolition, heretofore an art sacred to the engineers, a job that any soldier can do in a pinch, if he has the explosives and a bit of arson in his system...
...record seven million tons of ore was melted in January. February consumption was 12% above last year. By the end of the year the rate will be up to eight and a half million, and a stock will have to be laid in for winter. The pinch is so sharp that it may be necessary to ship most of the return-voyage coal by rail, rushing the boats back empty. Coal takes only three to five hours to load, but eight to twelve hours to unload...
...windows, gas masks, gun stocks, an war goods in general. At present it is limited by lack of methanol and acetone, which, like explosives, are made from starch. But in spite of our "vast and untouched" resources it is the United States and not the Axis which feels the pinch. We have been depending mainly on sugar as the source of the mow scarce starch, gathering only one per cent of the possible yield from corn. An attempt not so long ago to industrialize potato starch was ruined by foreign competition which our neighborly State Department encouraged. Germany...
...Gulf and Caribbean ports to Bayonne and Liverpool. By last year Britain, whose pre-war tanker fleet was over three million tons (plus Norway's two millions), was already torpedoed into an oil shortage. Now the U.S., with some 3,000,000 tanker tons, may feel an oil pinch...