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...Copper Range) for all the copper they could dig-perhaps 20,000 tons a year. The deal: the mines were to get it above their "out-of-pocket" mine costs, about 15? or 16? (depending on the producer). The U.S. will still release the copper to fabricators at 12?, absorb the difference. Similar offers will doubtless soon be made to other high-cost mines (like Miami Copper's low-grade Castle Dome property in Arizona). But the Government doesn't think that any price in the firmament can pry loose much more than 75,000-100,000 tons...
...acre airfield owned by Brewster Aeronautical Corp. in Bucks County, Pa. This saved hauling countless tons of gravel and sand to mix with the cement, cut costs 40%, saved time too. The cement-and-dirt pavement can scarcely be broken with sledge hammers, can easily absorb the pounding of Flying Fortresses, is expected to last over ten years. Air force engineers who developed it expect small cracks to appear during the winter, will seal the field with asphalt to prevent ice heaves...
...products are often much cheaper than those of fusion metal particularly for small complicated shapes like gears. They look just like ordinary metal to the naked eye; they can ultimately be made equally strong. But they have distinct advantages, chiefly 1) light weight, 2) porosity which enables them to absorb large quantities of oil, giving them semi-permanent built-in lubrication...
...from the Door Latch. About 1922 the U.S. electrical industry created a byproduct of its work with tungsten: bearings pressed from copper and iron alloys. Their sponginess was their advantage: the fine continuous pores (up to 40% by volume) can absorb oil, exude it by capillary action as needed. Often they require no further oiling after impregnation; they can be sealed into machinery (e.g., household refrigerators) and forgotten. By 1932 "oil-less" bearings were used for many purposes in automobiles and were in time found to outlive the rest of the machine. Billions of such bearings...
...expanded aircraft capacity will produce little after World War II except unemployment. Optimists think otherwise. Some expect the personal plane to become as common as the automobile. (General Motors, through its subsidiary General Aircraft Corp. in Lowell, Mass., is already experimenting with a "spin-proof" cheap plane.) But to absorb U.S. big-plane capacity, a whole new industry must come to the aid of the passenger transport lines. Confidently expected by many an airman, the new industry, air freight, is already out of swaddling clothes...