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Blown Up, Flown Up. Although powdered magnesium is explosive, solid magnesium is no more combustible than aluminum or iron, both of which also burn in foil or powder form. (To prove this point one metallurgist went about smoking a magnesium pipe.) But today less than 5% of U.S. magnesium goes into military pyrotechnics and scavenging; 95% goes into definitely nonflammable alloys of which about 80% goes into airplanes...
...Until defense interfered, Alcoa was busy on the cigaret foil market, claims the tobacco industry could save $500,000 a year in freight costs by using aluminum foil instead of tin. Aluminum beer kegs are already used by Ballantine and others...
...involved: tariff law, patent law, the Sherman Act. The Government's charges were in twelve groups, for different branches of the industry: 1) bauxite; 2) water power; 3) alumina; 4) virgin aluminum, pig and ingot; 5) castings; 6) cooking utensils; 7) pistons; 8) extrusions and structural shapes; 9) foil; 10) miscellaneous fabricated articles; 11) sheet; 12) cables...
Rear Admiral Ferdinand Louis Reichmuth, 57, is an even-tempered foil to his boss. Admiral Reichmuth (pronounced Rike-muth) has in his destroyer command 60 to 75 destroyers (in two flotillas), at least 25 fewer than there were when the U.S. turned 50 destroyers over to Great Britain last year...
...quarters' and retreat below decks" to escape rocks and safes hurled down upon them from Lars Anderson or Cottage Farm Bridge. For this reason, the boat would be invaluable to the invaders of Britain because they would be able to pass unmolested under the bridge at Scapa Flow. To foil German agents desirous of the construction plans, the designers have built their revolutionary craft without plans according to Chinese custom and Bernie Warner...