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...system purported to be founded by them. Is it sophistry to argue that the high percentage of Naval Academy officers selected by boards simply reflects the very real value of the four years at the Academy dedicated to no other end but creating a naval officer of raw material . . . ? ARTHUR S. HILL Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy U.S. Naval Air Station Pensacola...
...State Cordell Hull handed to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and China's Foreign Minister T. V. Soong similar proposals for post-war economic collaboration* based on: 1) Article IV of the Atlantic Charter, providing for equal and free access to the world's raw materials; 2) Article 7 of the Lend-Lease agreement with the United Kingdom, providing for repayment of Lend-Lease materials in such a way as "to promote mutually advantageous economic relations . . . and the betterment of world-wide economic relations...
...order to eliminate overhead welding. Bows and sterns of destroyers, weighing 30-40 tons apiece, were assembled in mammoth shops ashore, rolled out, lifted by giant cranes on to the ways. Chief limiting factor long since has been the ability of the rest of U.S. industry to produce raw materials and equipment fast enough to keep up with the shipyards...
Pulp magnified the confusion in paper. Since wood pulp is also a raw material for rayon and for explosives, and since the Scandinavian source was cut off, a pulp shortage was expected. But North America found it was self-sufficient in wood pulp, so long as it could not export it for lack of ships...
Newsprint had its own special scarcity scares. Its chief raw material, Canadian groundwood, requires huge amounts of power, which might be required for power-hungry aluminum mills instead. But Canadian newsprint mills today are running at only 75% of capacity: the power freed by the remaining 25% (not to mention excess capacity in other areas) should be more than enough for the new aluminum capacity scheduled to come in next fall...