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...tons in 1941-42. Second "if" was coke: its output, already a bottleneck, must be increased by 8,031,000 tons. Third "if" was allocation of orders: maximum production, said Dunn, can be reached only if orders are spread evenly throughout the industry. Fourth "if" was a shift back to Bessemer steel: little-used old Bessemer ovens should be put to making steel for barbed wire, nails, low-grade pipe...
...remaining courses, the usual program is to select one out of 3, 4, and 6, and some other courses. And perhaps the best polloy is to select according to the men teaching the courses, your year. Unfortunately for this analysis, these men shift...
Harvard was sporting a 40 to 28 lead going into the final relay, and a make shift Crimson quartet nipped the Gymnast first stringers in a close race. Quarter-miler Tiny Gorman led off for Harvard and picked up a small lead against Pincombe; Bill Jay added to the margain against Hatch; Dick Harris lost ground to Beck; and Tom Shrewsbury preserved the narrow lead he had inherited right to the finish...
Last week a new potential bottleneck loomed on the defense horizon : 'U. S. businessmen. At the top, where there is no second shift, the pressure was mounting. It was not a uniform pressure; only managers with defense orders felt it seriously, bankers and salesmen still got to the club or the first tee on time. But all over the U. S., high-pressure spots were multiplying. Presidents and general managers canceled trips to Palm Beach, ate lunch and dinner at their desks. Wives fretted. Doctors warned. But still U. S. businessmen came early and left late...
...Most of the camp construction work is done by farmers, for big wages. Comer hopes they will use the money to buy the farms on which they have been tenants heretofore, and to improve buildings and equipment. This would give the South a new standard of farm income, a shift from cotton and tobacco to food crops, a permanently increased purchasing power. The South also is getting a chance now to train workers; even when the shell plants fold up, the new supply of trained men will be an invitation to new industries...