Word: ferrosilicon
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...magnesium program was to enlist a new process that uses less power than present electrolytic methods: ferrosilicon. Pulverized and mixed with calcined dolomite (a common magnesium ore), the ferrosilicon reduces the ore in a vacuum, and magnesium of high purity results. Henry Ford, Union Carbide & Carbon and Canada's Dominion Magnesium Co. have been experimenting with the process for three years. All three will share in the new manufacturing program. So, using this or their own process, will American Metal Co., National Lead Co., Permanente Metals Corp., Dow Chemical (at present the only volume producer of magnesium), Mathieson Alkali...
...outsider into that job. In the Senate his authority to name the R. F. C. president was challenged on the ground that by law the board must choose its own. C, President Hoover flexed from 5? per Ib. to 2½? per Ib. the duty on: alsimin, ferrosilicon. aluminum and ferro aluminum silicon containing between 20% and 52% of aluminum...