Word: ferrous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada had produced 16,200 aircraft, 28,000 heavy field and naval guns, 1,500,000 machine guns and rifles, 8,000 ships, 800,000 vehicles, ammunition in the millions of rounds. To turn out these and scores of other items, Canada had doubled pig-iron production, tripled non-ferrous metal production, increased chemical manufacturing 233%. Said Howe with pride: "This unprecedented expansion . . . has resulted in manufacturing becoming the leading industry of the country . . , [and] on a production rather than an assembly basis." Turning to peacetime production, he pointed out that the Government had spent $720 million on land, plants...
...tons of non-ferrous metals (aluminum, brass, other copper products), 16,600 tons of critical ferro-alloys...
...substitute for chromium and nickel plating, indium takes a high polish, is resistant to discoloration. Deposited electrolytically, it diffuses with underlying non-ferrous metals to form a protective coating...
...whole drive. Actually dealers are ship ping scrap to the mills as quickly as pos sible and at a satisfactory rate. But deal ers are handicapped because the publicly collected scrap requires careful sorting (about 30% of the take thus far has been metal not suited for steelmaking - non-ferrous metals, galvanized zinc, brass, etc.) and under price ceilings for steel scrap, dealers cannot afford to bid high for labor to do the sorting and handling...
...ounce and then laboriously reburying it at Fort Knox. The War Production Board last week decreed that gold mines must stop breaking out new ore this week, stop all operations within 60 days. The War Manpower Commission simultaneously moved to force gold miners to take jobs in other non-ferrous mines-notably copper-which are desperately short of manpower (TIME...