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Would such armament conflict with international law? Certainly not, said Mr. Roosevelt. Wouldn't this require amendment of the Neutrality Act? Yes. To what extent? That was under consideration. A special message to Congress? Don't know...
...began producing it commercially. These hard-cemented carbides have a hardness between diamond and sapphire. They are often shaped into cutting tools by another product of powder metallurgy: a solidified mixture of diamond dust and bronze powder. They work without softening at high, cherry-red heats while cutting ordinary armament steels two to ten times faster than cutting tools made of the toughest high-speed steel; and they gave Germany some advantage in arms-making efficiency throughout World War I, when they were unknown to the Allies. In 1926 Krupp began to assist the American development of hard-cemented carbides...
...with its tremendous slice of armament contracts ($1,200,000,000), was unable to give its guests a firsthand look at all the work it was doing. Its 500-odd defense jobs are parceled out among 60 manufacturing plants in 35 cities. But in a hall at the company proving ground at Milford, G.M.'s visitors saw samples of G.M.'s vast work-in-progress: airplane instruments, Army trucks ranging from earth-borers (for planting land mines) to floodlight units, guns, airplane, automobile and ship engines, propellers. Prime exhibit was an Allison airplane engine. G.M. has contracts...
...feet short of B-IQ'S. Joe Hartson said 170 carried better than 10,000 gallons of gasoline (6-19 capacity, 11,000), but refused to give figures on her range, except to say that she could fly to Europe and back (as 6-19 can). Her armament, like B-19's, was a secret, but reporters could see at least six power-driven turrets...
...Federal Reserve Board last week revised the best-known U.S. business barometer, its own monthly Index of Industrial Production. Its ingredients were reshuffled in order to give more weight to armament production. Result: a slightly higher level of indicated production, averaging three points a month since the beginning...