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Married. Stripteuse Rose Louise Hovick ("Gypsy Rose Lee"), woman of letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...
...listing the things it did not control: farm products, books, magazines, movies, etc., collectors' items and precious articles, securities, raw naval stores, restaurant meals, insurance, advertising, utilities and a few other services. The selling price of everything else was frozen at the highest levels for each individual supplier during the month of March. Penalties for noncompliance: up to a year in jail and $5,000 (plus liability for triple damages), suspension for a year of the license to do business that OPA's Regulation automatically grants to all sellers...
...progressive Timken Roller Bearing Co., a railroad supplier for 37 years, last week went out of its way to offend one of its best customers. In full-page newspaper ads, run in 23 U.S. cities, it stingingly rebuked the railroads for technical backwardness, urged them to avoid "serious freight congestion" by converting all their freight cars from friction bearings to roller bearings at once...
Biggest foreign supplier (25% in 1940) has been Russia. Last month the Nazis captured the Nikopol manganese beds in the Ukraine, but the blockade has cut off Russian shipments anyway. Except for Cuba's 10% contribution, most other U.S. manganese supplies come by long, dangerous hauls from the Gold Coast, South Africa, India, Brazil. Federal stockpile builders have accumulated enough warehoused manganese (some 2,000,000 tons) to last for two years of arms-making-but nobody knows how much will be needed before the war is over...
...statistic was already out of date. Same day they released more comprehensive figures. Total actual and proposed defense expenditures through mid-July were $50,785,000,000 (including $3,669,000,000 in British orders through mid-June). Bethlehem Steel is still No. 1 war supplier with $1,228,242,000 in contracts; No. 2 is General Motors with $1,200,000,000 (placed or under negotiation); No. 3 Curtiss-Wright with $980,000,000. Consolidated Aircraft has $684,000,000, Glenn Martin $652,000,000. Many a newcomer was beginning to learn the defense business, getting a piece...