Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Titanium. National Lead was after titanium when it bought the mine, and it expects to get over 100,000 tons of titanium dioxide a year to sell at 14½? a Ib. Almost unknown to most U.S. citizens, dazzling white titanium dioxide is so opaque that it has ten times the covering ability of white lead. Three-quarters of it is used in paint; another big use is in paper. Before the war it was found on beaches in India's native state of Travancore, hauled halfway round the world to the U.S. Maclntyre alone will soon yield almost...
Vanadium. National Lead got a windfall in the vanadium at Maclntyre. It hopes to get 3,000,000 Ib. a year, worth $2.90 a Ib. as ferro-vanadium. This white metal is vitally needed to increase the tensile strength of steel. As such it will be snapped up like soda pop at a ball game; sale of this by-product alone will rake in almost as much cash in one year as National Lead has spent on the whole Maclntyre development...
...famed outfield has been hitting a piddling .249. Nevertheless, last week the Bombers were leading the American League by seven and a half games. The player they could thank for this was right-handed Pitcher Ernie Bonham, called Tiny because he stands 6 ft. 2 in., weighs 215 Ib. Last week Tiny chalked up his seventh victory in a row-four of them shutouts...
...tough period without going broke." Nevertheless the average worker's total pay has gone from $1,996 to $4,879 in the past decade, while the productivity per man has gone from $6,107 to $25,025. And a Lincoln welding electrode that sold for 16? a Ib. in 1929 now sells...
...head weighs 26 Ib.-3½ lb. less than the old-bringing the pound-horsepower ratio down to less than one-for-one for the first time in aircraft-engine history. Skilled manpower is saved; eight unskilled boys do work previously assigned to 150 technicians. Finally, the hydraulic press, one of the few large automotive-industry tools convertible to aircraft making, is tailor-made for the forging...