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...Hercules Powder: steam turbines...
...traffic, have taken a new lease on life. In an effort to cripple luxury trades, convert them to war needs, Britain has barred all imports of cosmetics from Eire into Britain or Northern Ireland. Last week not only were women commuting across the border to smuggle in paint and powder, but the old cattle smugglers were busy taking cosmetics over the border...
...dawn one morning customs officers gave chase to a car, ran it to earth near Scotch Town in County Tyrone. They seized 1,000 powder puffs, 3,245 hair nets, 900 combs, 63 dozen handkerchiefs, hundreds of bottles of perfume. Other booty: lipsticks, nail files, cigaret lighters, 30,000 clothes pegs, onions, a crate of chocolates smuggled over the border in a lorry loaded with chicken crates...
...weight, the tremendous, latent power of its production machine, the U. S. needed time to make that weight effective. It would still take months, and years, for the U. S. to exert the force that comes from mass plus momentum. Deliveries to Britain of aircraft, guns and powder were a long way from the top. Still further off was the day when the U. S. could provide a transfusion of the most necessary corpuscles in Britain's blood stream: ships...
Another new plant at Charlestown, Ind. (capacity 600,000 Ib. daily) is well ahead of schedule, will go into production, operated by Du Pont, in April. And the third, at Childersburg, Ala., will be ready to turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 300,000 Ib. by midsummer. No matter what unforeseen delays might do later, one critical bottleneck was cracked, would soon break. By autumn, the Army and Navy would have a wartime powder supply...