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...finished products, and make up the balance by shipping vast stores of raw materials that the U.S. badly needs. Thus the U.S., which will scrape the bottom of its manganese and tungsten deposits in three years, will be able to stockpile these from Russia, along with high-grade molybdenum, chrome, mercury, zinc...
...handsomest ghost town of World War II-Mouat, a $15 million investment in chrome-sat on a shelf of Montana's Bear Tooth Mountains last week, all but deserted...
...Baby. Two years ago Mouat was a wooded mountainside, green with Douglas fir and jack pine. Its population consisted of jut-jawed old Prospector Bill Mouat and his wife. Then the U.S., needing chrome sorely, found it at Mouat. Japs had choked off the chrome supply from the Philippines; the Nazis blocked the Mediterranean route from Turkey, Nazi subs imperiled shipping from South Africa. The Government moved in with old Prospector Bill...
Shutdown. But Allied victories in North Africa and Sicily brought death to Mouat. Chrome could be shipped again more cheaply than Mouat could mill it. The mill closed down. Workers wandered off to work in Butte's copper mines. The Anaconda men who operated Mouat for the Government went back to their old jobs. All that was left in Mouat, three months after production began, were guards, maintenance men and their families, an occasional bear nosing through empty garbage cans, and old Bill Mouat and his wife...
Ilka Chase's first novel is the liveliest agitation of stamens and pistil since the last flowering of the night-blooming cereus. Like the heady perfumes of its heroine (a chrome-plated Manhattan cosmetician), In Bed We Cry derives its strength from a dash of civet. The plot is a triangle whose base is always broad, whose chief points are streamlined by agelessness...