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...die-casting industry employs less than 25,000 workers and represents only 125 independent companies, most of them very small. But quite apart from the crucial 15% of its production that goes to defense, its demise would leave a colossal gap in the U.S. economy-through its 5,000-odd normal customers. Die castings are a sine qua non of hundreds of consumer goods from zippers to outboard motors, from clocks to vacuum cleaners, from fire extinguishers to drug dispensers, from an essential small piston rod for automobiles to a whole radiator grille...
...customers like Singer (sewing machines, irons, etc.), could probably survive the loss of die castings, since they can fill their factories with defense business eventually, in many cases already have enough to live on. But Singer has some 20,000 salesmen, who are not trained for defense work, and who would then have nothing to sell. As for small users of die castings without defense work, many are in the soup already. Some victims...
...Corp. (Adrian, Mich.). From 17 employes to begin with, he reached a peak of 960 early this year, plating door handles and radiator trimmings for automobiles, household hardware, etc. His basic manufacturing process reads like a roster of scarce materials: he uses nickel anodes for chrome-plating zinc die castings, which can't be made without aluminum. His best customer: General Motors, whose A. C. Spark Plug Co. can make die castings for G.M. from the scrap aluminum that other G.M. plants produce in the course of manufacturing, and from the zinc of which huge G.M. can get much...
...Stewart Die Casting, a division of Stewart-Warner, is facing a 50% production curtailment, has laid off 15-20% of its normal payroll of 600 men. Its general manager, George Meyer, President of the American Die Casting Institute, has been busy of late trying to persuade the Army and Navy that they can use many more die castings. Fortnight ago he wired the President to ask for more business (and better priorities) for his industry. But he has little hope of keeping it all busy...
...Arthur H. du Grenier Co. of Haverhill, Mass, (vending machines for candy, gum, cigarets) has had to cut production 30-50%, employment one-third, not only because of the die-casting shortage but for lack of steel and of cobalt nickel for the magnet that rejects phony coins. Du Grenier has no defense business. Says Treasurer Bouchard: "We are very much worried about the future...