Word: columbium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production has not even doubled. In 1951, it will not exceed 5,000 planes (about the 1939 rate) v. World War II's peak of 96,318 (see chart). Engines are the bottleneck, and there are two main reasons: shortages of machine tools and of critical metals (cobalt, columbium and tungsten). Moreover, engines are so much bigger and more complicated than World War II's that it takes more time, more skill and three times more labor to build them...
Without any precise goals set for war production, the Government began to cut back civilian production by stepping up the stockpiling of such vital materials as cobalt (for radar), copper, columbium (for jet motors) and aluminum. Since the size of the stockpiles is a military secret, no one except the stockpiles knew whether they were too big or too small. But they had already brought about some fairly deep cuts in civilian production-and would obviously bring many more...
...ordered that all columbium stainless steel, a tough alloy, be channeled into defense orders. Columbium* alloys are needed for jet engines...
...Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. is the main U.S. commercial supplier of columbium. For months all its production has been going for defense needs...