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Studebaker '42s have 1) automatic shifting and elimination of clutch pedal, 2) iron-alloy pistons, 3) bulky, locomotive-like grilles, 4) one-piece curved windshield on some models. Studebaker will take it easy on prices, may not boost them...
...need, let alone supply other military needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia and New Caledonia for lack of ships. . . . The Government's Metals Reserve Company, belatedly building a stockpile, had 422,000 tons on order, only 31,700 tons delivered...
Typical problems for Sir Kenneth: The June issue of the British Export Gazette contained an advertisement offering all kinds of electric equipment plus copper and aluminum for immediate delivery anywhere. Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. recently had a cable from Britain offering alnico, an alloy of aluminum, nickel, copper and iron unavailable in the U.S. because of priorities, essential to Zenith's battery sets. In both cases deliveries were stopped by British export control...
...needs), tin (20% of peacetime needs), aluminum, lead, mercury and phosphorus (almost none), rubber (none). Of such important alloy metals as antimony, chrome, nickel, manganese and tungsten, Japan produces scarcely...
Explosive rivets, developed by Du Pont after the basic invention in 1937 by two employes of famed German Plane Builder Ernst Heinkel. A high explosive nests in a cavity at the headless end of an aluminum-alloy rivet. When heat is applied to the head by an electric riveting gun, the charge explodes at the other end, forms a "blind" head, sets the rivet. Explosive charges can be controlled to adjust the size and shape of the head to within .02 in. This breaks a major plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side...