Word: borax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approved the allocation of 218,000 metric tons of scarce U.S. tinplate to 19 Latin American countries* enough to stock their canners for this season. By this week's end, similar allocation approvals were expected on iron & steel, tanning materials, soda ash, farm equipment, anhydrous ammonia, rayon, cork, borax and acetone; eventually on 101 products...
Under industry-wide mandatory priorities, which means that no supplier can sell them except to customers who have priority rating, were 14 materials: aluminum, borax (and boric acid),* copper, cork, ferro-tungsten, machine tools, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, polyvinyl chloride (for plastics), rubber, synthetic rubber, tungsten high-speed steel, zinc. Pig iron was soon to be added. So were some heavy chemicals-sulfuric acid and possibly ammonia...
...Mule Team (M.G.M.) contains, in addition to the 20 mules, two Beerys-Wallace and Noah Jr. Wallace is no surprise as a sly, slobbering, guzzling mule skinner employed by a borax company to haul its product out of Death Valley. Leo Carrillo is a big surprise as a pigeon-toed Indian. Biggest surprise of all is Marjorie Rambeau trying to act like a saloonkeeper...
...story is all about borax claim jumping and the love of Noah Beery Jr. for Saloonkeeper Rambeau's spoiled daughter (Anne Baxter). Its sandy wastes are punctuated by one good crack. Says Mule Skinner Beery describing his sire: "He had twelve other sons besides me. I was always the youngest and puniest. Gosh, he was a fine old feller! Never raised a hand to none of us boys-'cept in self-defense." If I Had My Way (Universal) will thrill countless admirers of Singer Bing Crosby by making him the foster father of Songstress Gloria Jean, Universal...