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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manganese is used in small amounts by the copper, glass and dry-cell battery industries; but steel uses most of it; about 13 Ib. per ton. Its function in steelmaking is to collect the stray traces of sulfur which all carbon steels contain. The sulfur tends to combine with the iron to make iron sulfide, which collects in films among the crystals of hardening steel, prevents cohesion, makes it brittle, so that it cannot be forged and rolled. Manganese takes the sulfur away from the iron and the manganous sulfide which is formed collects in small globules throughout the metal...
...analyzed its structure, said that biotin is extremely powerful, very difficult to make. Only a few grams have been synthesized-at a cost that would come to $63,800,000 a pound. In an early experiment one and one-half millionth of a gram was obtained from 40,000 Ib. of egg yolks. A primitive protein related to urea, biotin occurs in all living cells and is best known as the antagonist of another protein called avidin, which occurs in raw egg white. One of the biggest problems in biochemistry today is the dynamic balance between these two vital substances...
...season's beginning (Aug.1), Commodity Credit Corp. was the world's biggest cotton owner ever. Of its 6,126,482 bales, 4,778,321 are from the 1937 crop, have now cost the Government (including carrying charges) 12.2? a Ib. Now CCC can swap part of these holdings for hard cash. Besides a small profit, the corporation will also get the last laugh on the experts who in 1940 predicted the U.S. would end by burning its cotton hoard...
...export program helps the Allies, is immediately aimed at Canada. Although Dominion textilites have always liked U.S. cotton, they switched to Brazilian cotton this year because it was 6? a Ib. cheaper (normal discount: less than 1?) than the U.S. product. The new subsidy makes up most of this difference. Soon U.S. cotton will move out of warehouses to be manufactured in Canada (uniforms, bandages, guncotton), shipped to active duty overseas...
...Food transferred to England included, among other items, 90,000,000 Ib. of pork, 110,000,000 Ib. of dried beans and lard, 50,000,000 lb. of eggs...