Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been no more than a coincidence"-that shipments of thorium to the U.S. from the state of Travancore, in southern India, had been stopped. Travancore, one of India's least backward states, used to supply three-fourths of the world's thorium (for gaslight mantles, radio tubes, carbon terminals, luminous watch dials...
...would certainly go up in price from the old ceiling of 8¼? a pound to the world price of 10¼?. Copper and zinc would follow suit, and these last crippling shortages would probably end as imports poured in. ¶ No general rise in steel was seen. Some carbon steel products which were being produced at little or no profit would probably go up. Alloy steel (10% of the steel output), on which controls had already been removed with no price effect, would probably stay put or even decline. ¶ General Motors was the first to raise prices...
...biggest plant, Tennessee Eastman, a majority of the workmen voted for no union at all. At the smallest, Monsanto Chemical Co., the A.F.L. came out on top. At the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals factory, where the C.I.O. had trailed the A.F.L. in the first election, it now won by a molecule (25 votes out of 3,811 cast...
...switch at Carbide & Carbon was a minor triumph for the C.I.O. As a last-minute campaign tactic it had accused the A.F.L. of scheming to put Oak Ridge workers into the corrupt and autocratic Hod Carriers Union. An A.F.L. suit for criminal libel was too late to stop the damage. Summed up Southern A.F.L. Representative George Googe: "Chaos for another year...
...C.I.O. got the hardest blow to the mazard. At the big Tennessee Eastman Corporation the C.I.O. was out of the race altogether; there the run-off decision would be between no-union and the second-place A.F.L. At Carbide & Carbon and Monsanto Chemical, C.I.O. got snowed under by the A.F.L., but will have a second chance to fight it out again...