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...part of the deal, Alcoa agreed to let the rest of the industry use its alloy patents and several of its most important fabricating patents without charge. WAA thought that this put the industry on a competitive footing. But the Justice Department's trustbusters hit the ceiling...
Gruff, honest Bridgman assigned Robert to a project involving a copper-nickel alloy. Oppenheimer built a furnace, made his alloy, completed the study with sufficient precision for Bridgman to publish the findings. Says Bridgman: "A very intelligent student. He knew enough to ask questions." After hours, at the Bridgman home, the conversation ranged far & wide, giving Oppenheimer chances to display his often irritating erudition. Once Bridgman identified a picture as a temple at Segesta, Sicily, built about 400 B.C. Young Oppenheimer quickly set his professor straight: "I judge from the capitals on the columns that it was built about...
Peter Grahame Fletcher, an old Dover College boy, had spent his U.S. year at New Jersey's Peddie School. He preferred the English scheme of sorting the bright boys and the bumbleheads into separate forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered his history teachers at Peddie too insistent on their own nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also...
...matter what they did, producers could not satisfy the increased demand for almost all types of steel. Even alloy steels, relatively plentiful a few months ago, are again scarce. With current allocations calling for 6.2 million tons (out of 66 million tons annual production) the pinch will become painful about November. How much tighter would it get? Some estimates, including ECA needs and other export requirements, put the total set aside at 16 million tons. If so, production of such consumer goods as autos and refrigerators would probably have...
...Canadians are against that. Some big industrialists, sure that they could compete in it successfully, cast covetous eyes on a combined market of 156 million. Best examples: makers of fine papers, furniture, alloy metals. The Maritimes, where many believe that confederation was a mistake, have a friendlier feeling for the U.S. than for Ontario. Said Nova Scotia's Industry Minister Harold Connolly: "Complete economic unity between Canada and the U.S. is inevitable...