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...other ways, war's pinch tightened enough last week to raise more than aluminum bruises on the U.S. economic body. To the list of metals already under mandatory Government control (aluminum, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...
...Federal Power Commission had even direr words to say. Already short on power production, the U.S. has run into bad luck in droughts in almost all the waterpower areas. The shortage, said an official of FPC, might easily become the most serious in history. Harold Ickes was ready to pinch citizens with other remedies. What the country needed, said he, was nationwide daylight saving time. The U.S. also seemed headed for darkened electric signs, a suspension of such power-guzzling affairs as floodlighted skyscrapers, night baseball games...
...pinch is already on those durable consumer goods (like automobiles) that compete with arms for materials. But Mr. Keynes thinks the U.S. can still avoid both general price fixing and inflation, especially if Leon Henderson keeps a strong hand. "His is the most difficult job," said the mellowed Cassandra. "You must give him every support...
...auto industry employs about 500,000 men in its factories. In 1939 it used 80% of all rubber consumed in the U.S., 51% of malleable iron, 34.2% of lead, 18.1% of steel, 14% of grey iron. In the field of essential defense materials where the pinch is greatest, it used 23% of the nation's nickel, 13.7% of copper, 11.4% of tin, 9.7% of aluminum. Now defense needs some of these men and materials...
Smaller and nimbler than the average ballplayer, Rizzuto does everything with a pinch of snuff. He leaps for balls, slides for bases, scoots around like a catnipped rabbit. Last year he led the American Association in assists, putouts, stolen bases. As if that were not enough for a five-foot-fiver, Rizz the Whizz batted .347, an average good enough to lead the league until the season's final fortnight. For these accomplishments Scooter Rizzuto was voted the Most Valuable Player in all 43 minor leagues...