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Mining the Ocean. A year ago magnesium was extracted from only one source, Michigan's brine wells; by only one enterprising producer, Dow Chemical Co.; and by only one method, electrolysis of molten magnesium chloride recovered from salt water. This is a chemical trick so old that it is known as a prior art and is not patentable. Last winter Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold's division of the Department of Justice sued Dow as a monopoly, but the chief reason that Dow had magnesium all to itself was that before the U.S. began rushing warplanes there...
Hull down in Pacific brine, squat, ugly U.S. freighters were last week carrying the second A.E.F.-men and materials for action in the Far East. Hundreds of young U.S. volunteers were en route to fight in China's skies (TIME, June 23). Advisers were going; men of every skill and walk of life were setting out, some for freedom's sake, some for adventure...
Impatience with the Senate last week had finally risen to a clamor. Columnists, editorial writers, radiorators volleyed & thundered. The isolationists were cursed with bell, book and candle; Administration leaders were wigged and trimmed for their fumbling delay; cartoonists kept a brush in brine for the isolationist leader, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler...
...Chemical Co., indicted last month with Aluminum Co. of America and three other firms for conspiring with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie to hold down U. S. production through patent control (TIME, Feb. 10). Dow produced the nation's 6,500 tons last year from Michigan brine wells, is now building a plant at Freeport, Tex., to extract another 6,500 tons a year from the Gulf's salt water. When the Freeport and Kaiser-Reilly plants are going full blast, U. S. production will jump to at least 25,000 tons a year, four times...
...monopoly control. Named chief co-defendants with Alcoa and I. G. Farbenindustrie were American Magnesium Corp. (half owned by Alcoa), which is the chief U. S. processor of magnesium, and Dow Chemical Co., which in 1927 developed a native American process for extracting the metal from Michigan brine wells...