THE keels of the fastest deepwater ships ever to be built in the United States will be laid down shortly in shipyards from coast to coast. Thirty-seven-knot destroyers -- whippets of the sea -- will be slowly shaped with riveting hammer and welding torch from the blueprint lines of the drafting room and the curves of the molding loft.

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URGES NEW BODY FOR COPPER EXPORTS; K.N. Guiterman Proposes an Organization With Power to Control Price. SUGGESTS 12-CENT LIMIT Corporation to Be Formed Under Webb-Pomerene Act, Would Buy 400,000 Tons.

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On copper exports; article in Daily Metal Reporter

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Notable Births

1932Vasily Belov, Russian novelist, poet and playwright (died 2012)^[†]

Vasily Ivanovich Belov was a Soviet and Russian writer, poet and dramatist, who published more than sixty books which sold seven million copies. A prominent member of the influential 1970s–1980s derevenschiki movement, Belov's best known novels include Business as Usual, Eves, The Best is Yet to Come and The Year of a Major Breakdown.