Word: cadmium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cadmium paints (pale yellow to deep red): Prices, though protected by a Government ceiling...
Painters, like other businessmen, now face priorities. Foreseeing virtual confiscation of certain key materials like titanium white, cadmium and chromium pigments, Manhattan's American Artists' Professional League (2,200 members) recently petitioned Washington for cooperation in keeping artists supplied with their annual ration of paint (about a gallon apiece). For some 35,000 U.S. citizens who make their living painting pictures that gallon of paint is a necessity...
...White, cadmium yellow (light and medium), cadmium red, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, viridian green (chromium compound), alizarin crimson and four earth colors...
...Under "a mild form" of inventory control were 15 other metals: antimony, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, ferrous alloys, iridium, iron & steel products, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nonferrous alloys, tin, vanadium. Users of these must file statements monthly that they are not increasing their inventories...