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...only floating oranges marked the spot. . . . Soon after sunrise Wednesday, we saw three tiny shadows. Then we saw five, then six, then eight, and then more & more. We fired a first salvo of medium calibre shells. A fireball went up from a hit vessel and we immediately ceased firing. Powder clouds covered the water. One vessel turned aflame. Then the bow sank and a little later everything was covered by white foam. On the place where another vessel had just sunk only a long, smoking flame was visible...
...expansion of its steel capacity is nothing new. Aluminum plants are more exciting: not only do they look permanent, but the Reynolds plant will give Alcoa (which is also expanding its Tennessee Valley capacity) its first real competition in ingot production. But to many Birmingham businessmen, anti-aircraft shells, powder and shell loading looked like stimulants that would soon wear off. Asking themselves what a powder plant could be used for in peacetime, they found no answer...
...balance sheet on the defense program's long-term significance to the South was still ambiguous this week. Some Southerners were frankly pessimistic. As they viewed the figures, the South was on the short end, getting the cantonments and the powder plants, while the solid, lasting business went to the industrial North. Some were even resentful; they thought the South had been passed over shabbily when defense contracts were handed out. The South had $1,530,898,441 in defense contracts by the middle of last month; the rest of the nation had $9,784,958,092. Such contracts...
...Southerners like Donald Comer, head of Birmingham's big Avondale Mills (TIME, Feb. 10), see one way the South may permanently benefit even from a mere ice-cream-and-powder-mill boom. Most of the camp construction work is done by farmers, for big wages. Comer hopes they will use the money to buy the farms on which they have been tenants heretofore, and to improve buildings and equipment. This would give the South a new standard of farm income, a shift from cotton and tobacco to food crops, a permanently increased purchasing power. The South also is getting...
...Radford, Va. (pre-Boom pop. 6,898), where some 10,000 men are building a powder plant...