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...Detroit shuddered over reports that WPB was about to order all of its auto molds and dies (made of high-alloy nickel steel) turned into scrap for munitions. Worth infinitely more than their $60,000,000 valuation in terms of quick postwar conversion to car production, their destruction would ensure a post-war designer's field day (see p. 82), would turn current models into worthless antiques even more surely than wartime rationing of tires...
Chief industrial use for silver is the silver brazing alloy, which brings about an almost instantaneous "wedding" of separate metal parts. The alloy has a melting point between 1,175 and 1,300 degrees F., avoiding the injury to metals which sometimes results from the 1,600-degree heat required for base-metal alloys...
...test of the silver brazing alloy process, steel noses were attached to 29,000 bombs in a 22-hour day by a single plant. Highest hourly rate...
...ships, piping takes up much valuable space. When silver brazing alloy is used instead of threaded joints, the thickness of the pipe can be reduced about one-half. It can be installed more quickly...
...alloy is used in airplane engine coolers and radiators, ignition systems, cabin heaters, fuselage construction, parachute rip cords, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, anti-tank guns, shells and torpedoes...