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Chemist Midgley buckled down, with a corps of able assistants, in Frigidaire's Dayton, Ohio laboratory. Compound after compound was examined, tested, cast aside. Finally Chemist Midgley hit on dichlorodifluoromethane (carbon; chlorine; water; and the mineral, fluorspar). It was nonpoisonous, odorless, would not support flame. For the second spectacular time, Midgley had rung the laboratory bell...
...fantastic prices for war materials. They had cornered the Mexican mercury market and bought considerable stocks of molybdenum by offering $4.74 against the U. S. price of $4.43 for mercury, $3.55 against $2.75 for molybdenum. They offered 5 to 6% more than U. S. prices for Mexican antimony, copper, fluorspar, tungsten. Another Mexican motive was thought to be a covering move against possible U. S. embargo pressure: Mexico could tell the U. S. she would gladly embargo oil, but could not block operations of Japanese-controlled firms actually operating in Mexico...