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Tuskegee's Negroes faced two problems: 1) learning to fly; 2) learning to become aggressive, when every tradition had taught them submissiveness. The raw material was good. Of these Negro cadets, 57% had had technical studies in school, the average had had three and a half years of college. Of the first 81 cadets accepted, 44 were from the South, 26 from the North, six from the Middle West, five from the Far West. They were anxious, eager, studied hard, flew hard, busted buttons bulging their chests at inspection...
What makes mild Mr. Anderson maddest is to compare the U.S. use of raw materials with Germany's. The U.S. copper supply this year is ten times what Germany has been winning the war with, he points out; yet the U.S. war plant is now slowing down for "lack" of copper! Germany is using one-quarter as much copper ammunition, though both nations are producing about the same quantity of shells...
...Many a mickle makes a muckle" says Harvey Anderson, when he is challenged on his belief that waste like this is the one big reason for the raw-materials crisis. He wants a new, over-all review of all Army & Navy specifications, with particular emphasis upon using more secondary, reprocessed metals. He also believes that castings could replace metal-wasting machining operations in many cases, that silver could bear much more of the load borne by copper, nickel...
...even James Street's ham is rich with cloves, hickory smoke and raw sugar. With Edison Marshall (Benjamin Blake, TIME. March 17, 1941), he is the most promising performer in his field since Margaret Mitchell got bored in an Atlanta hospital and decided to write a book...
...Each backward step brought the United Nations closer to facing the awful question: What if Russia fell? Whatever the probabilities, that dire possibility had to be faced. How would Russia's defeat tip the scales toward the Axis? How many men, how much oil, how many planes, what raw materials would be left to fight the Battle of the World...