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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Freon to the Front | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Oil for the Bombs of China | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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