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First Acts. WPB's first official actions made good sense. It officially stopped automobile production, curtailed radio production by 45%, virtually ended civilian use of rubber and aluminum. It began a hard-boiled survey of copper inventories, to try to find leaks of that vital metal from arms production. It ordered automobile graveyards turned into scrap, badly needed for steel production...
...their pure form some luminescent pigments glow quite feebly, but they brighten up startlingly when only .0006% of certain metals such as copper are added. Yet if a similar infinitesimal .0006% of iron is also present, the afterglow is dimmed by one-third. Since iron could easily be floating about the laboratories as dust, great care must be taken to guard the purity of the ingredients while they are being compounded in electric furnaces. Result: luminescent pigments are costly-price last week was from $12 to $25 per lb., or $10 to $60 per gallon for paints...
...February, when the vast expansion of the plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...
...other hand, needs copper, zinc and lead, not gold. A change for fiscal reasons in its gold-purchase policy is the farthest thing from the Treasury's mind. But the U.S. had another club over Empire miners, and it was fingering this club last week. It can refuse to export any new gold-mining machinery, which many an Empire mine-to maintain and (in some cases) expand production-is still trying to buy in the U.S. Before long SPAB is due to rule on these pleas, and the odds are that SPAB will be pretty tough, will...
...having trouble enough keeping his Union together in the face of political opposition, race problems and fifth columning. Though South Africa may have to limp along with no new equipment, a likelier spot for a real labor shift is Rhodesia, with some 75,000 gold miners. Rhodesia's copper production is a military secret, but is said to be lagging (TIME, Nov. 17). More miners might help...