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...stage they had plans for 24 plants to make shells, powder, the chemical components of munitions. Now there are to be several more. By June, OPM expects to have 50% of its originally planned capacity in this type of munitions - and that 50% will be double the total capacity developed during World War I. Planned also was capacity to manufacture 20,000,000 rounds of .30-caliber (rifle and machine-gun) ammunition, 4,000,000 rounds of .50-caliber machine-gun ammunition every 24 hours. Now the goal is as much more as can be produced. Tough-talking Mr. Glancy...
Blue-eyed, moon-faced Rudolf Neuberger got his idea while he was working for Atlas Powder Co. He kept hearing his friends groan over the big checks ($500 to $700) they had to send off each term to board their children in prep schools. To Mr. Neuberger, a merchandising expert, this looked like a problem business methods could solve. When he first circularized schools in 1938, he got just one client: Manlius School in New York State. Manlius sent Tuition Plan 20 contracts within ten days. The 100-odd institutions which now use the Plan include such prep schools...
...infect two half-acre plots of turf (where grubs thrive best) in each square mile. Birds, breezes and flying beetles then complete spreading the disease. Purpose of spore-sowing is not, as in spraying, to kill beetles on a specific plot but to establish the beetle enemy widely. Spore powder is not available to ordinary gardeners, because the Government is using all that is available to secure maximum distribution-although the Government will not make public just how much land it expects to treat this year, its plans call for the inoculation of 1,800 square miles in Maryland alone...
...oldster, they were surprised. Old Steve Dutton is built like the village smith, bullnecked, his nearly-six-foot frame wrapped with 180 Ib. of muscle as tough as a lion-tamer's boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...
Last December Winthrop Chemical Co., a reputable Manhattan firm, shipped out 410,000 sulfathiazole tablets throughout the U. S. Several days later a doctor complained that the pills made a patient dangerously drowsy. Company chemists discovered to their horror that they had been accidentally mixed with a powerful sleeping powder, phenobarbital (popularly known as luminal).* In large doses, phenobarbital, like other sedatives, may prove fatal...