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Since over 30,000 of Canada's gold miners are mining gold and nothing else (the rest are in multi-metal mines), since Canadian base-metal production is still not all on a full capacity basis and other war industries are short of labor, a shift of gold labor would make sense. So far Canada has received no Lend-Lease aid, but presumably will when it runs short of dollars...
...gold labor is being wastefully used. Rock-bound old General Smuts is having trouble enough keeping his Union together in the face of political opposition, race problems and fifth columning. Though South Africa may have to limp along with no new equipment, a likelier spot for a real labor shift is Rhodesia, with some 75,000 gold miners. Rhodesia's copper production is a military secret, but is said to be lagging (TIME, Nov. 17). More miners might help...
...Methodist shift was paralleled in other churches-and the declaration of war found the clergy even stronger in their support than they were in 1917. This united sentiment was attested by the official heads of each major Protestant denomination in replying unofficially to a questionnaire from TIME. Significantly, however, not one of them directly answered TIME'S question as to whether most ministers feel America is fighting for the cause of righteousness-i.e., whether they were likely to preach a holy war. Apparently the clergy have not forgotten how they got their fingers burned after World...
...fast they would hit 2,800 units monthly within a year. Current rate: 840. Meanwhile, Timken Roller Bearing (busy on Navy and tank gun mounts) told how it had planned full-time production 20 months ago. Timken's "anti-blackout" schedule uses three full eight-hour shifts, a fourth swing shift to keep equipment running 160 hours weekly, leaving eight hours a week for maintenance...
Although the H.S.U. also changed to intervention after Russia entered the war, this policy shift took place over the summer and did not restore the magazine to whatever place it had occupied as a leader of student opinion...