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...took the Big Five twelve hectic San Francisco days to agree on an interpretation of the Yalta veto formula (TIME, June 18). In just half that time they made the Little Forty-five take-but not like-the Big Power version. The accompanying scrap gave San Francisco its liveliest week, portrayed world attitudes and worries in plain folks' language...
...three Axis leaders scurry in terror before a thick hail of junked scrap-metal -wrenches, chainlinks, pots & pans, hammerheads, nuts & bolts, ashcans, an ancient boiler, a potbellied stove, a chamber...
...good old peacetime the U.S. never used over 400 million lbs. of aluminum a year. Last week the War Production Board announced that aluminum would be available immediately, priority free, for civilian goods. On top of this announce ment the Surplus Property Board declared that it will scrap all unsalable military aircraft in the U.S. from which can be produced an estimated one billion lbs. of second-grade aluminum ingots. Best Washington sources estimate that, as a result of these two orders, over 100 million lbs. of aluminum will be available for third quarter civilian production...
...place of other materials, in such articles as refrigerators, retooling, new designs, retrain ing of workers, etc., will be necessary which will take time. Also, virgin aluminum is still two to three times as costly as steel. This difficulty may not be serious if second-grade aluminum from scrap -good enough for many common articles -is available at a low price...
...tempts to demonstrate, by song and cumbrous dance routines, that morale means just One Thing to all men. The hero really loves the nice girl (Joan Leslie) who loves him, but he doesn't know it yet. He gets hold of a magic lamp in a scrap-salvage drive. The lamp breaks, and releases a gaily kosher genie (Gene Sheldon). The grateful genie gives him three wishes -which rather confusingly turn out to be four or five...