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When, after covering 1,000 miles in 34 days, the three men staggered ashore on an unknown island, Dixon remembered to outline a plan for avoiding possible Japanese sentries, and to seek out a strong mooring post for the precious raft. Even at that moment he was thinking ahead: if the place was dangerous, or uninhabited, they would rest up, scrape together provisions - and take to the raft again...
Steel output steadied at least 5% below peak operating capacity. The recent re-rating of high priority orders has done little to help distribution and many a small steelmaker beefs about precious time lost in filling out scads of WPB forms and questionnaires. Power output is still one of the bright spots in production with U.S. utilities pumping out record amounts of juice each week...
...Panama-Pacific Exhibition, served as a World War I training ship, escorted transports for General William Sidney Graves's Siberian expedition in 1918. Decommissioned after World War I, she was supposed to become a Portland public monument (like the Constitution in Boston). But now her metal is too precious: she must die in a junk yard...
...order to make his best contribution," said he, "every farmer should divert as much wheat land as practicable to crops more urgently needed . . . soybeans, flax and various feed crops." He told them that storing the colossal wheat surplus (tying up, among other things, thousands of bins made of precious steel) is already a terrible headache. He begged them to keep all the wheat they could on the farm and to market as much more as possible in the form of livestock and poultry...
From his new Washington office near the Mayflower Hotel he issued orders and directives. He put out feelers for precious minerals, he hired plane-wise engineers. Most important, he got assurance-from somewhere-that engines would be forthcoming for at least his first 100 planes...