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Radium's third best market is the luminous paint industry, which is booming. A very little radium goes a long way: combined with zinc sulfide, one-thousandth of one gram (there are 28.35 grams in an ounce) can illumine thousands of needles on thousands of aircraft dials...
Dogged Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War, blew the bugle for battle with this charge: the superduper, overriding priority won by "Bull Bill" Jeffers four months ago to bull through his rubber program had raised unholy hob with the 100-octane gasoline pro gram. Training planes have been grounded in this country, said Mr. Patterson, thus delaying the day when swarms of bombers will finally smash the Axis...
...early next year. Then he rumbled about Washingtonians "sitting around desks and is suing orders and grousing about someone else taking something away. The difference is that we are getting out on the job and getting it done. The rubber program has not interfered with a single other pro gram. In fact it has lifted along other programs and has provided additional capacities by uncovering new sources of sup ply. The final answer is that the rubber program is going ahead." Finally he demanded an investigation of Patterson's statement...
...Thiamin (formerly vitamin BI), preventive of beriberi, neuritis and loss of appetite, was formerly extracted from rice polishings, once cost $300 a gram. It now costs 37? a gram. Made by the ton, it goes chiefly into enriched white flour, to restore what is lost from the whole wheat in milling...
...also used as a preventive of some eye inflammations and fissures of the lips. It is recommended for the enrichment of bread, but the supply is small because of the shortage of equipment in wartime. Within the past year its price has dropped from 75? to 58? a gram...