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Three of the five great powers will have disappeared. France has gone, and if ever she returns it will be a hard and a long upward pull for her to emerge again. Italy has completely disappeared and may never be a great power again. Germany will disappear. Germany, at the end of this war, will have disappeared perhaps never to emerge again in the old form. Nobody knows...
...supplies alumina (the oxide from which aluminum is made) from its Mobile plant to the two others, operated by Reynolds Metals Co. and by Olin Corp., a subsidiary of Western Cartridge. Come peace and an end to WPB's control of alumina, Alcoa might decide to pull out of the two DPC plants and cut off alumina. This could kill the new industry...
...they are skillful, fare best. There is money to be made and real wealth to be salted away against better postwar years. But those who do the best must be prepared to hear epithets like "hoarder" and "smuggler," must expect their neighbors to assume that they are using "pull." Over & over, the hard-pressed tell each other that "The Gang," the favored few who know how to obtain licenses to trade in foreign currency, are lining pockets, putting down anchors where they will do the most good if chaos should come...
Gnarled hands reached over the side, began to pull up the first of the "gang" nets, each "gang" made up of 24 gill nets 4 ft. wide and 300 ft. long, which may extend for a mile and a half. Motors of the automatic net lifters began to cough. With thousands of lake herring trapped by their gills in the 2½-in. meshes, the nets poured into the boats for two hours a glistening stream of thousands of pounds of fish. Nets cleared, lunch eaten and new nets set, the fishing fleet turned homeward, from Duluth to Munising, Mich...
...show business. In 25 years he has never changed his manner, and very little of his matter. Yet despite the fact that the few movies in which he has appeared have been flops, despite the fact that he has warily avoided radio contracts, he and his company can still pull an average of $7,500 weekly out of U.S. theaters and nightspots from coast to coast. Ted Lewis has survived the death of vaudeville, the invention of sound film, the development of modern broadcasting. And he is still packing them...