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...clear that it opposed any non-defense industrial expansion which would require too much steel or other scarce materials. Eastman's new facilities would have produced enough plastics to replace 6,000,000 lb. of stainless steel, 8,000,000 lb. of aluminum, 18,000,000 lb. of chrome nickel plated steel, 34,000,000 lb. of zinc. But they would have required both steel and stainless steel to build...
...newcomers were Packard, Plymouth, Studebaker. All showed the same trend: longer, lower bodies, further streamlining, an impression of massiveness attained by redesigned front ends, cartwheel-sized hubcaps, heavy grilles, thigh-thick bumpers. Amazing was their glitter. The touted shortage of chrome, nickel, other bright metals was not in evidence on the surface. The use of plastics was up, but not much more than in recent years. Some details...
Chemist Boyer last week hoped for "limited production" by 1943, said "there's lots of development work to do." Plastic bodies would relieve some of Detroit's immediate worries over steel and chrome, but not over copper, zinc, nickel, other shortages. Nor could it easily get the new presses and tools to work the plastics. But in normal times, plastic cars would take some 10% of the steel industry's market and give it to farmers. The new Ford was the first gun in a technological revolution that may begin when the other guns are stilled...
...supply other military needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia and New Caledonia for lack of ships. . . . The Government's Metals Reserve Company, belatedly building a stockpile, had 422,000 tons on order, only 31,700 tons delivered...
Wrong were the dopesters who expected the 425 to look like hearses for lack of shiny grills and trim. Plastics have replaced zinc, chrome and steel on the Hudson's inside trim and the radiator ornament; but the outside trim, chrome last year, is stainless steel. Pistons and cylinders are still aluminum...