The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-28

(CoNtinued from Preceding Page) eral who is handling the anti- trust suit against Alcoa, contends that the whole purpose behind the delay in increasing output is to smother competition.
 It is pointed out that when Stettinius handed out contracts for 800 0,000,0 900 pounds of virgin aluminium ingot, Alcoa's lone competitor, the Reynolds Metals Company, got only 60,oO0,0o0 pounds.
 Recent figures on AlcOa's pro- ductiOn costs are not available,
 but in 1937 when the Justice
 Department began it's antitrust
 suit, it cost the company 9.6 cents to make a pound of alu-
 minum ingot that sold for 1858 cents-Or a profit of 1O4 per cent. Today the price of
 aluminium ingot is 17 cents a pound.
 Two years ago Alcoa's profits on fabricated aluminium products, including those which would be used for national defense, ran from 59 to 181 per cent. FDR'S BEARDED FOE
 Most picturesque and amiable of all opponents to Roosevelt's Aid Britain bill Is Republican Congressman George Holden Tinkham, Boston blue-blood, full beard, and big game hunter. Of these three distinguishing quail ties, Tinkham is most famous for the beard. Brown and bristly, 1t shoots out in all directions, has the same unkemptness as the costume of its wearer.
 An unmarried hermit, Tinkham lives in an apartment with the windows bricked up, lest a ray of sunshine fade the colors of his Oriental tapestry or a moth touch the lion and leopard skins, the elephant-leg stools, giraffe necks, and rhinoceroS canes which he has brought from Asia, Africa and every corner of the world.
 Representative rink h m comes from a staunch Demo- cratic district which every year gives a humping victory to Roosevelt, and an equally humping victory to Republican George Holden Tinkham. He performs this miracle partly through a carefully oiled poi.ti- cal machine, partly through his
 charm, and strangely enough, partIy through going off big
 game hunting on the eve of every election.
 The district is largely Irish, which may help explain Tink- hams violent opposition to the Aid Britain bill. Closing fer vid harangue to Congress on the malevolent link between the King ! of England and American bank CTS, Tinkham once winked at his colleague: That ought to go down well with the Boston Irish"
 There is only one person George hates more than the King of Eng land, and he is Franklin Roose- welt. Once when his Irish con- 4 stituents demanded that he see Roosevelt regarding the persecu- tion of the Catholic Church in Mexico, Tinkham begrudglngly Joined a congressional delegation z to the White House.
 'Tt's gall and w0rmw0Od for s me to talk to Roosevelt" he told other members of the delega- tion, "but suppose I'll have to g0."
 When the delegation stepped inc side the executive office, the bel- ligerant bristling-bearde Con- gressman from Massachusetts was the first face Roosevelt spied.
 "EIellO, George" he shouted with genuine enthusiasm, "hOw are you? It certainly is good t0 see you again."
 Tinkham flushed red even bee heath his whlskers. His colleagues roared and Roosevelt looked piiz- 5zed. But no one let him in on the joke--cspecially not rink ham.
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