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...force the U.S. to use more silver at the over-inflated legal price of 71.11? per oz. (see p. 73), came up with a new gag last week: a silver "one-bit" piece, worth 12½?. The reason they gave was the alleged "danger" that dime-priced articles might soar to 15? for lack of an intermediate coin. Despite the "danger," the Treasury, mindful that eight billion pennies are in circulation, kept cool...
...year. Loaded at Houston or Corpus Christi, the barges now thread their way through the shallows and marshes of the Gulf Coast to the Mississippi. After April 1, when an intracoastal canal through these waters will be opened all the way to Corpus Christi, barge loadings are expected to soar still more...
...vegetable fats and oils-to make soap, linoleum, paint, varnish, oleomargarine, shortenings, for many a food and manufacturing process. Pearl Harbor threw all this fat in the fire. At once domestic oils-soybean, cottonseed, linseed-felt the surge of the shifted demand, began to soar in price. OPA clapped on a price ceiling; but last fortnight, to prevent hoarding, OPM had to freeze all U.S. stocks of some 1,800 different fats and oils, domestic and imported. No food, soap or paint manufacturer can now carry more than 90 days' supply. Tung-oil restrictions are even tighter...
...overtime mounts, as skilled labor and management are spread thin, as general-purpose tools are used for special-purpose tasks, and as subcontracting brings in more & more small, marginal and obsolete factories, it is likely that U.S. industrial efficiency will decline. But it is certain that output will soar to levels which, a year ago, would have been considered astronomical...
Though nearly $20,000,000 has been spent since its cornerstone was laid in 1892, St. John's is still far from finished. Some $10,000,000 must still be raised for the transepts, crossing dome (which will soar 241 ft. from floor to lantern), central and west towers. Not until then will the original Romanesque plan of the cathedral, changed to Gothic in 1911 by Ralph Adams Cram, be completely hidden. But for a cathedral 49-year-old St. John's has made rapid progress-most of it since Bishop William Thomas Manning assumed office...