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Show Compromise Forecast in Tlohafp nn CCC FyfpiKinn 1UmUIv VII wuu Liiivi wiwi 4 I T Labor to Use Organized Strength to Fight lU ?f - r -i increased rrices; Aumimsirauun is Counting on That Support. By BAUKIIAGE JVeui Analytt and Commentator. J WXU Service, Union Trust Building, 1 Washington, D. C. A few weeks ago, an earnest and agreeable young man came to my office from the American Farm Bureau Bu-reau federation. His name is Ben Kilgore. He is a Kentucky Farm bureau man, a former farm paper editor who has just been put in ' charge of the bureau's publicity here In Washington, probably as a result of some remarks without any bark on them which Chester Davis, former for-mer war food administrator and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, made at the recent re-cent bureau convention. Davis did not say that the bureau and some other farm organizations were interfering with the war effort and trying to be hoggish by fighting for higher food prices but he did say that the people of the country were beginning to talk that way about farmers. And he told the organization organiza-tion members that if they weren't as black as they were painted, they had better begin telling the people of the country so. And so the bureau went out for some "new blood." Kilgore is not new to the farm bureau but he is new to Washington. He has served in Kentucky. He knows his subject sub-ject and can write about it I couldn't say whether he has brightened the grim picture which Mr. Davis painted to the bureau he has hardly had time but his presence is evidence of dynamics which are energizing this chip of the farm bloc or one might put it the other way, for the Farm Bureau 1 federation is really the tail that wags the dog when it comes to getting congressional action. And soon action will begin, for the grace extended to the Commodity Credit corporation expires February 17 and then the fight over the subsidies subsi-dies begins in earnest. The Federation 'Line What the publicity plans of the farm organizations are, I do not know, but this is the "line" as Kilgore Kil-gore expressed it to me: "The American Farm Bureau federation fed-eration Is not opposing consumer subsidies in order to break down price control and obtain higher farm prices. The present general farm price level is high enough. All we ask is for a few sensible price adjustments ad-justments on specific commodities , . . Such small and specific adjustments adjust-ments are far more practical and wholesome than a billion or more dollars out of the federal treasury to help pay the consumers grocery bill and to regiment and socialize the farmers of this nation." The War Food administration, charged with carrying out the war farm program, has no publicity plan. As a matter of fact the office of Administrator Jones is about the quietest place in Washington as far as the public goes. Its work is carried car-ried on without press agenting right now. One reason why we don't hear much from the war food administrator adminis-trator right now is because the food situation i pretty good. Of course, tere is wrangling about prices but that isn't in his department The last week in January he announced his support prices which can't be carried out unless the three billion dollar agency that keeps floors under farm prices, the Commodity Credit corporation, is continued. Jones made it plain that the 1944 program depended entirely on congressional con-gressional action. In reply to a question, he said it could be carried out "without subsidies." There isn't any question that congress con-gress will favor the support plan. That's accepted as essential in wartime war-time and sometimes welcomed at other times. The reasoning Is that you don't ask a munition maker to sign a contract to deliver machine guns without telling him what the price will be. In order to carry out the farm program, you have to demand de-mand certain things of the farmer in order to get the thing you want Hence the guaranteed price. But subsidies are a horse of a different color. Support prices pro tect the producer. Subsidies protect the consumer. Without them, the price ceilings crack. Farm income has risen 118 per cent in dollars since 1939 when the war in Europe began. During the B R I E F S . Wood is growing in our forests at the rate of about 11.000,000.000 cubic feet per year or about 21,500 cubic feet per minute. Wood is being taken from the forests at the rate of about 13,000.000,000 cubic feet per year, of which 2,000,000,000 cubic feet is lost due to fire, insects, and disease. If these destroyers could be controlled, present wood growth would almost balance wood use. M 4 . . 3 JET-: V - t s i i -1: I . I - '4 Mi4j2fltsW last war, it rose steadily, 128 per cent However, there is a catch in those figures. In the last war, the ; a rrt Ata 411141 ca ilw 17 font I in purchasing power. Today, the farmer's income has risen 72 per cent in terms of purchasing power. Preliminary Report Just what is ahead? On or before February 17, debate will begin on the bill extending the life of the Commodity Com-modity Credit corporation containing an anti-subsidy provision. Meanwhile, the farm bloc adher-ents adher-ents and supporters will probably carry on a pretty good publicity plan for their side and some of the consumer con-sumer groups will be heard from. Labor will shout the loudest and most effectively. But that is simply because it is a large and a well-organized well-organized group. It is a strange thing, but America, which has organizations or-ganizations of almost every kind and description formed largely for increasing in-creasing the Income of its members, has very few organizations formed for the purpose of decreasing their expense. Consumers, as such, are not organized. There are, of course, a few cooperatives but they are hardly more than local affairs and, comparatively speaking, small and weak. This is due to the cheerful American theory that if you haven't got enough money to pay your expenses, ex-penses, you ought to go out and get tome more money. In any case, labor (although organized or-ganized primarily to get more pay) is going to use its organized strength to fight higher prices and the administration ad-ministration is at present counting on enough support from the labor lobby itself, the results of the pro-subsidy pro-subsidy publicity on the general public, pub-lic, to sustain a presidential veto of any measure banning subsidies. There is no sign of enough votes to prevent the passage of the bill, but enough are expected to sustain the veto. So that legislative process will have to be gone through with unless the farm bloc feels it has an accurate accu-rate measure of the administration's strength, as revealed by various test votes, so that it can compromise without going through the veto process. proc-ess. Either way, some kind of a compromise will undoubtedly be reached. But the way is a weary one. Preview of Invasion Tactics With invasion in the offing I decided de-cided I wanted a preview. A little difficult to arrange, I admit. I know, however, that you could see a full dress rehearsal at the amphibious base at Fort Pierce, Fla. That institution has been cloaked in the darkest secrecy until recently. Just before the base celebrated its anni versary I was allowed to look behind the scenes. No details can be reported of this revolutionary development in American Amer-ican military history that started fresh from zero. For almost a full week I watched and, in some cases, worked with the men who make "amphibious action" ac-tion" possible those who go over the transport side into the landing craft and up the beach, and the other men who see that they get there, from scouts, and raiders who slip in at night, crawling through the wash of a strange beach to throttle the sentries and clear the way for the others, to the last of the reserves. I have never met a finer type of man, soldier or marine, and they are all there army, navy, coast guard, and the engineers, the sea-bees, sea-bees, the medicos, scouts, raiders and the other specialists. Cooperation Coopera-tion is the key to the greatest achievement in amphibious action-army action-army and navy working together as one. It is a navy operation right up to the tide water mark, where the army takes command, but a closely close-ly Interwoven texture, as much a single unit as a fighting division of land troops or a navy task force. I talked with their leaders, tough, quiet young men, who have learned by doing they know what it is to land on a strange shore in Africa or Sicily or the Pacific. They are a great lot the scouts and raiders (our commandos) some big, some little, some college athletes, some from farm and factory, but all hard, wiry, certain, and anxious for more , action. . . by Baukhage Twenty-seven barter stores have been opened in Berlin, the British radio says, in reporting that the Berlin chamber of commerce had decided to make all wares subject to barter. e Texas farm woodlands have an excellent record in fire prevention with less than 1 per cent burned annually an-nually for the past several years. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Battle for Italy Grows in Intensity As Allies Close on Supply Routes; Pacific Sea Lanes to. China Cleared By U. S. Triumph in Marshall Islands Released DJf wenern ., . -., M MhMmpmi. iki .mum ip 1 HI I ? ' : 'r f ' " 4 ? " ; .1 MfV; - '.- - ' ' ?V i ti J : ... PftVA ' i.;X ft " ' t 1 ' ' "Sl ( - ' "U, , d- "-.v-Sj--s - i i -, , 1 , StV.-- j? . of. - ' 1 &Mi,f..S."MWtWMi't'-.n.ii'""'- Italy Captured German prisoners are marched through Anzio as bitter battle raged for Allied beachhead below Rome. EUROPE: Fight for Rome In the coastal plains 18 miles below be-low Rome, Allied and German forces locked in battle for the Eternal City, while farther to the south, Fifth army troops closed in on the supply lines feeding the enemy forces resisting re-sisting doggedly in the Cassino area. While fighting in Italy rose in fury, waves of Allied planes thundered over Europe, pounding the French coast along the English channel to soften the Nazis' concrete and steel defense emplacements and rip their network of air fields, on which they are counting to check invasion forces. As fighting developed below Rome, the Nazis brought up heavy armored reinforcements to challenge the big Allied army operating along a 30 mile coastal stretch. Both sides threw swarms of planes at each other's oth-er's supply lines, with the German force demonstrating in strength for the first time during the Italian cam-paiga cam-paiga The Germans' hold on battle-scarred battle-scarred Cassino was shaken when Fifth army troops worked their way toward highways over which supplies sup-plies were being fed to enemy forces hanging on near the town, key to the broad plain leading northward to Rome. RUBBER: V. S. Steps From Brazil After two years of pioneering deep in the stewing Amazon jungle, the U. S. is pulling out of rubber grow-'ing grow-'ing there and leaving the job to Brazil, from whom this government will purchase the material for .60 a pound. To help develop an accessible source of natural rubber after the Japs overran the English and Dutch plantations in the east after Pearl Harbor, the U. S. decided to rebuild the industry in the Amazon basin, once the world's rubber capital and producer of the seed which was smuggled to the Orient for cheap cultivation there about half a century cen-tury ago. Since 1942, the U. S. spent large sums on recruiting workers for the steaming rubber districts, transporting transport-ing them to the sites, and maintaining maintain-ing them there, with equipment, food and medicine. As a result rubber cost per pound was supposed to have risen to anywhere from $1.22 to $50 a pound. POST-OFFICE: Profit Shown A money-maker in the 12 months ending last June when it realized a profit of $1,332,849 for the first time in 24 years, the post office department is seeing red again during the current fiscal year. Supplied by Postmaster Post-master Frank Walker Walk-er to the house committee considering consider-ing appropriations for the department for 1944-'45, figures Frank Walker showed that during the 12 months ending last June, gross postal revenues rev-enues totaled $966,277,288, of which $964,894,439 was expended. In addition, addi-tion, $122,343,000 of free service for soldiers and government agencies was rendered. For the fiscal year 1944-'45, the house committee recommended an appropriation of $1,105,697,533, an increase in-crease of $205,719,248 over the present pres-ent year. HIGIILIGUTS HOUSING: Two million new homes will be needed immediately after the war to take care of married mar-ried servicemen and families that have doubled up during the conflict. John Blandford, administrator of the National Housing agency, told the Associated General Contractors. Other new houses will be needed at the rate of 600,000 a year for replacements, re-placements, he said ii.ttiH..irjl St newspaper uiuvu. PACIFIC: China Bound The Pacific sea lanes to China are being cleared by U. S. army and naval forces for a -'v7""l grand assault upon Japan from bases in that country. Ad- i miral Chester Nim- itz declared in reviewing re-viewing the quick triumph in the Marshall Mar-shall Islands, where & over 12.000 enemv V t i troops were killed to v the Americans' General Smith 1,600. Revealing that U. S. policy was "to get our ground and air forces into China as early as possible" pos-sible" because "I do not believe we can defeat Japan from the sea alone," Admiral Nimitz said: "I believe the Japs can only be defeated de-feated from bases in China because they draw food, iron and other supplies sup-plies from Manchuria and China, and as long as they have access to these they will be difficult to beat." As Marine Commander Maj. Gen. Holland Smith's troops rung up Old Glory oyer the Marshalls, U. S. air forces again hammered the big Jap base of Rabaul on New Britain, Brit-ain, going after airdromes from which enemy craft have been taking off to blast American ground units on the western end of the island. MEAT SUPPLY: Civilians Share About 131 pounds of meat will be available to every person in the U. S. during 1944, and this supply might be increased if the government- can spare stocks from its emergency reserves, the U. S. tie' partment of agriculture announced. Reviewing the meat situation, the department reported that a record 25,000,000,000 pounds may be produced pro-duced in 1944, even though numbers of cattle, hogs and lamb on hand were about 15 per cent less than last year. The services, lend-lease and other U. S. agencies will get the 8 per cent increase. Cattle and calf slaughter in re cent weeks has been heavier than a year ago, and about 46 per cent of the animals now on feed are sched. uled for marketing by April, the de partment said. . - OIL: Seek Arabian Reserves To relieve the strain on U. S. petroleum petro-leum supplies which will be called upon to furnish the fuel to enable the country's military and naval forces to help maintain collective security in the postwar world, the federal government will co-ODerate with the Standard Oil Company of California, the Texas company and the Gulf Oil company in exploiting Arabian oil resources. At a cost of approximately 150 million dollars, the government will build a 1,250 mile pipeline which will carry the crude from the com. panies' fields to the Mediterranean coast with the companies reoav ing the principal cost plus interest within 25 years. The companies would maintain a crude oil reserve of 20 per cent of the total field for the government and sell to it below the market price. Since the consent of Saudi Arabia and smaller Kuwait would be need. ed before work could start Senator Moore (Okla.) said the agreement would amount to a treaty affecting relations between the peoples of the U. S. and the countries concerned thus requiring senate approval. . in the week's news CANNED MILK: Civilians will get slightly less condensed and eva P- oratea milk this year than last War Food administration the an nounced. An allotment of 1.740.000 1.000 pounds of evaporated, and 190.700 roo,- wu pounds of condensed milk has been made from stock estimated at 3,562.200.000 Dounds total. Militarv supplies were increased to 939.800,- uuu.uou p"unds. "GHALX STOCKS: Rail Movements Spurt With farmers anxious to wove, grain and fertilizer before .Pan ' ing season and box cars being diverted di-verted to haul in Canadian feed, rail facilities for the rural regions are tightening up. Further strain on raU transport looms with Great Lakes shippers asking for early movement of grains now aboard vessels in storage so that they can begin operations in the spring. .. .. L. u rail Sltua- wnue ugnienuig i tion was announced, it was aiso re- , vealed that the Commodity Credit , corporation's total wheat stocks at the end of January amounted to 87 million bushels, ana com bujj. to only 1 million bushels, reflecting -:. ;n mmmoditV. Ulc Dig yun.ii 1U - - Since July. 1943, CCC purchased 146 million bushels of wheat of which 75 million bushels were Canadian. Since July, 'CCC wheat sales aggre gated ZoU million DU&ueia. RUSSIA: Nip Threat Rplinved to be the spring board for future German operations in the southern Ukraine, the Nazi-neia manganese center of Nikopol came under heavy fire of Russian forces driving in from the east The Germans' position at nutopoi was their farthest extension east ward in Russia, following their with drawal along the whole 800 mile front and with a similar eastward bulge further to the north, was seen as a possible prong for a gigantic Nazi pincer movement against the back of the Red armies far inside pre-war Poland. In the Baltic region to the north. the Russ Dressed forward below Leningrad, and continued heavy at tacks farther to the south between the Pripet and Berezina rivers, where a break-through would enable them to loop the entire German army heavily engaged in the Baltic states. VETS: Discharged Redrafted Discharged vets who have fully recovered from battle wounds and can meet the physical requirements of the services, are being redrafted in accordance with selective service regulations, but not for overseas duty. " In striving to meet its tremendous manpower needs, the army also has advised commanders to check men thoroughly In the light of lowered physical standards before discharging discharg-ing them. ;Many disabilities on which men formerly were released are no longer recognized, it was said. Aware of the redrafting of vets, the army has ordered restoration of their old ranks. " Get-rich-quicksters are enjoying a field day in the Chungking, China, black market, where beef it telling at $2.50 for 1.33 lbs.; eggs at 35c apiece, and fish $10 for 1.33 lb. Driving past WAC quarters in Algiers, North Africa, one night, Col. Oveta Hobby and Commander Maj. Westray Battle espied a couple in a long embrace behind be-hind a tree outside the grounds. There's nothing wrong in a WAC hissing .her - ' Doy inena gooa night, Maj. Battle C0L- HOBBY said afterwards, but the must do it inside the company grounds. ' California'! Senator Sheridan Downey received thit pottcard from an irata constituent trying to fill out his income tax report: "My Dear Senator: f "I hope you roast a thousand years in hell for each minute I put in on this federal income tax report. re-port. "Frank Warren." TRUCK RATES: Urge Competition Such factors as competition with the railroads should be considered when formulating trucking rates, the Supreme court declared. The high court took this position in disputing what it said was the Interstate Commerce commission's rul that lower rates for shipments by motor carrier were justified only when a reduction in operating costs is achieved. "Each form of transportation presents pre-sents its own problems for the function func-tion of rate making," the court said. "Hence in such situations, principles previously established for application applica-tion with a single form of transportation transporta-tion cannot always be transplanted without consequence unduly harmful." harm-ful." As an example, the court pointed out that by tying rates to weights, a railroad with carloads of 30,000 pounds would have a great competitive competi-tive advantage over a truck, for instance, in-stance, with 20,000 pounds. SHOES As shoe rationing enters its second year OPA officials stated that there will be about 25 million pairs of footwear available a month same as in 1943. That means about 2 pairs per person a year, or one pair every 21 weeks. The leather situation remains re-mains tight and army needs are increasing, in-creasing, officials commented. Stamp No. 1 in Book Three (the airplane stamp) will remain valid until May 1, and No. 18 in the first book will remain good indef initely. The Headliners: Greta Garbo lifting lift-ing the brows of the diners in a midtown Hungarian restaurant by sprinkling a thick layer of sugar on each dish even the soup and vegetables vege-tables . . . Recent bandholders in the Persian Room: Gov. Bricker and his wife . . . Talu Bankhead kidded by the clowns in Club 18 with .i..!. mor-nvrhnard" routine . Poon Lim. the uiinese se Ripley's broadcast), sobbing while the radio actors dramatize bis story -on a raft at sea 133 days a record rec-ord . . . Turban Bey (La Hepburn's Hep-burn's reported romance) who has been listed as a Turk. He's from, Vienna ... Choo-Choo Johnson,; whose name is Violet Lynch . . .j Homer Capehart, the popular radic-phonograph radic-phonograph maker, who may be a candidate for the U. S. Senate from Ind . . . Bette Davis and her mater Incognito at a downtown deny ior hot pastrami sandwiches and celery tonic. Midtown Vignette: Earl Carpen ter's crew was playing another bene-' fit show on which a Hollywood star; appeared . . . Carpenter's music (to bring him on) was a appy tem- po'd "Who" ... the actor hammed It all over the place (stayed on for what seemed forever) and laid an omelet ... H. G. Gardiner, the drummer, received a note from one of the sax tooters. It read: "We played him on with Who.' Why not take him off with Why'7" A soldier (carrying an enormous laundry bag) walked into Tiffany's. He received no attention whatever all assumed he Was in the wrong place. He looked worn, his clothes didn't fit too well, an unimpressive fellow ... He was shunted to the small-priced dep't where he had difficulty convincing the salesman that he wished to buy something "more expensive" . . . He finally selected a bracelet at $5,000 and wrote out a check . . . The clerk was sorry he'd have to send the check to the bank "for certification" . . . Then he looked at the signature signa-ture . . . Carl Laemmle Jr. who had suddenly recalled his sister's birthday! Drama Report: A new play titled "Decision" by E. Chodorov has been enjoying a run in the East The story relates to an ostrich-like U. S. senator and the editor of his newspaperwho news-paperwho stir up disunity, prejudice prej-udice and terrorize an American town, particularly a wounded American Amer-ican soldier just returned from Sicily. The soldier's father, a teacher, teach-er, heads a citizens' group which threatens to bring charges of criminal crim-inal treason against the editor and senator . . . The Wilmington (Del.) News critic called it "exciting drama, tense and full of dramatic moments. You leave the theater feeling frustrated and angry; you cannot be unmoved . . . Representative Representa-tive citizens endeavor to attack the subversive forces which are causing what is virtually a civil war on the home front. Winchell himself might have written the play; it is so much his theme, this faith in the American Amer-ican who will force treachery from under its cover." The German Consul in Naples, Italy, had a list of American actors ac-tors who appeared in pictures attacking at-tacking the Nazis. Included in the list (confiscated by our troops) were Carole Landis, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, James Stewart, Henry Ar-metta, Ar-metta, Ben Bernie, Joe E. Brown and many other prominents . . . Arthur Clifford Read (accused by the FBI of being a Jap agent) threatened to go AWOL from Camp Croft if his superiors refused him a furlough ... He got it and it proved to be his big boner. He went to N. Y. where he was nabbed. Quotation Marksmanship: The Oskaloosa Tribune: Buyers once did business over the counter. Now they do it over the ceiling . . . Ladies Home Journal: No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples . . . Fletcher Henderson: Middle age Is that time in life when you'd rather not have a good time than recover from it . . . Lulu Bates: Argentina's Argen-tina's earthquake just goes to prove gain what can happen when you wgue with Winchell . . M. Lincoln Schuster: Warning to tyrants and dictators: Americans are famous for their sense of humor, but they cannot can-not take a yoke . . . Geo. San- SnM A anatic 18 man who redoubles his efforts after he has lost sight of his objectives . . D . h?: I St0rk brou8ht Franide little Son-atra. - Manhattan Morals: The 52nd Street sandwich shop sign: "Break-fast "Break-fast served until 5 p. m." The underground passageway " fW the models 917 r i. . UJC . . ' avenue (en route to the photog studios at 480 Lesing! ton, in the adjoining bldg)it is nicknamed: nick-named: "Glamour Gulch" : idewalk chalking: "This Is Look! Before-You-Leap year'" Winchell doesn't hear of if j DO THIS HasaCol with untried fM.ur'W miseries tht hJlT eUw miseries this horn proved, double-action way, .,4 v PENETRATES to upper breathlniL. "i g passages with raedi- 1 cinai vapors. STIMULATES cnesc ana Dacic sur I ., ica jLus.e a warm- ! '-to, ing- poultice. I , Now to get all the Wm. this combined rttnS,I STIMULATING. Arttnn V"i fn Soon i above, Just rub throat, chest',' hark urtt.h VlrlrVorn..J7?,.1 Jfiea wne fey about 7. ' h".uu EI hp time. Then ... see how thi. T.J tbeCB! ily standby goes to work tata,3 -2 ways at once-to relieve cou-l ing spasms, ease muscuh .rl it week t Was "tf laird C ping joroebo ness or tightness -bring en'-l medication invites restful f orting sleep and often bymor bl bau- ery of the cold islIff t .gone. Try it tonight. ' Camera Houses Operate; A camera so large the ohi pher works inside is being uc. laboratories or a telephone pany. "I WAS COtlSM FOR MANY YEARS Now I'm 'Regular' Ever Morning!" 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On Eros If you have constipation oft: line to 0," alo Mic. 1 jtilar d ii & , San type, eat KELLOGG'S All BRAN' or several ALL-BEi muffins regularly." Drink plenty water, bee if you don t find last-relief! last-relief! Insist on genuins AL! BRAN, made 'onfy by Kellogg's Battle Creek. itlents c bspital tl reened ! -'The S Destruction in Russia The rebuilding of the devast areas of Russia will require at tipressn 100,000,000 man-years. eautifull fennifer BACK IN GRANDMA'S Dte l colds often called for Eradicated mur ' ;lue n suet as a "home remedy" to coni; iters ai muscle aches, coughing. Today, it's i: i the Peaetro, modern medication in a bs I , containing mutton suet. Penetro'sdc f Bnc ble action relieves these miseries (l)'a porizes to soothe stuffy nose (2) acts Ei iaram warming plaster right where rubbed c : 2o& Double supply, 35c Get Penes anvitei dudes onald ( Large Islands ere ha There are six islands in world each larger in area t to mo; In th ureat .Britain. Taught to Fight When Peter the Great suffered verses on the battlefield, he w; shout, "Good! Our enemy is te; ing us how to fight!" The man' wring! ! Quite takes his past mistakes in that 5 will be so busy learning and F 50 w ffoduct ing that he will have no time ires, I ; worry, no time for a sense off longes or inferiority. tars ii Christmas Custom December lfi marlrs ihf heeiid -of the nine days of "posadas," T fliuonally observed Christmas r- eadlin "Casan torn in the other Americas, oV which is re-enacted the searct ptoper Joseph and Mary for shelter Bethlehem. pcoas fvett Peat Production Fifty thousand tons of peat r duced each year in the United St are used principally for soil tenes provement. Besides Eire, a scon countries, mostly in Europe, peat for fuel. Soviet Russia patic more than 26 million tons year Aluminum Tip In 1884, an aluminum tip placed on the Washington mc ruent, marking completion of pry e striking memorial for the fodef nce leader and first President the United States. Withstand Beat Zirconium is useful in industry its ahilitw n txrithctand high rjeratiimc t . Co for 1 . .uwtj. A. U WJV. ceramic bricks and as a cotnpo1 ing agent in-chemical and met gical industries. - Marine Institute The Marine Corps Institute f vides correspondence courses wide diversity of subjects Leathernecks serving to places on the globe. FE1 the si land ce wi st of prodi ary C Rob f'You ogra proi soras thf I Hodi Sory,' Ktori d the UeJ, OKD hdj |