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...Patch and pray" will be compulsory for industry as well as for U.S. housewives, said William L. Batt, chief of the requirements committee of WPB last week. Some patterns of U.S. living now in the making...
...aluminum shortage was officially buried last week, on the anniversary of the first big aluminum scare. Funeral orator was WPB's Bill Batt, who said that while the U.S. was still hard-pressed for steel, copper, nickel, manganese and many other metals, it is now "comfortably fixed" on aluminum. Another WPB man followed through with word that: "We are delivering aluminum to the planemakers now that will not be flown away in a plane until late fall...
...Bill Batt let one welcome cat out of the bag last week. He had just been through the first important U.S. tin smelter, he said, and it looked good to him. "I think it will be able to handle all of the Bolivian tin supply," he continued. "And another thing-in 1940 we felt that this smelter might not stand on its own feet in peacetime; I concluded that it would...
...Bill Batt's good word about the smelter brought to mind some minor bad news from Bolivia. Now that the Japs have cornered 90% of the world's tin supply Bolivia has regretted the 50? a lb. delivered price that looked so good before Pearl Harbor. Bolivia is now talking 60? at the embarkation point. Before the war high grade Straits...
Nothing Bolivia and Jesse Jones's smelter can do can solve the U.S. tin shortage. Though the U.S. has "a sizable stockpile," Batt pointed out, it can look forward to no more than 18,000 tons a year from Bolivia-about one-fifth of the nation's normal peacetime consumption. Ergo, said Batt, "glass and fiber containers are going to have to replace tin to a large extent for civilian...