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...chromium-plated, .50-calibre aircraft machine gun, Britain-bound, was ceremoniously presented to U.S. Army and British officials last week by High Standard Manufacturing Co. in Hamden, Conn. It was the company's 10,000th gun, produced seven months ahead of schedule with salvaged secondhand machinery - an accomplishment Army Ordnance "didn't believe possible a year...
...automobiles made after New Year's Day will be sans nickel, chromium or aluminum brightwork. This was the decision made last week at a three-hour Washington confab between the automakers and civilian supply boss Leon Henderson...
...formal order, to be issued very soon, will forbid the use of nickel, chromium, copper or aluminum in nonfunctional automobile parts. These are the principal materials in the huge shiny grilles, glistening hub caps and sparkling trim which garnish the 1942 models. An important exception: bumpers, tagged "functional" after an acrimonious Government-industry semantic fight...
...other was Montana-born Helen Madden, 30, secretary to Leon Henderson. The well-complected girls became friends over the telephone long ago in the constant crisscross of Nelson-Henderson calls. They had reason to decide to get acquainted, as they sat in the green-leather-&-chromium lounge, munched cream cheese and veal sandwiches. They were destined for greater collaboration, like their bosses, who had become, by Presidential order on the night before, the key men in U.S. defense management...
...conserve scarce materials is to take them from industries using the most. He figures a 50% auto cut (along with a 30-50% cut in refrigerators and washing machines ordered at the same time) would save 4,250,000 tons of iron and steel, besides much nickel, aluminum, copper, chromium, zinc...