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...While the U.S. sweated to get along with synthetic production, mouth-watering news came from Singapore: the price of Far Eastern rubber (22½? a Ib. before Pearl Harbor, when it was America's chief source of supply) is less than 1? a Ib. Reason: now that the Japs control practically all the natural rubber there is, they cannot find a buyer capable of taking it away...
...Advantages. Now on its way, Permanente may some day have advantages over other magnesium producers: its raw material costs average 4? a Ib. v. 14? for the ferrosilicon process used by Union Carbide & Carbon; its power costs are below those for the "sea water" process used by No. 1 U.S. magnesium-maker Dow Chemical. In the head-to-head battle of metals (steel v. aluminum v. magnesium, etc.) which will surely follow the Armistice, this will mean easy going for Permanente, tougher sledding for its competitors...
...Newark, N.Y., a search party finally found six-year-old Anthony Gullo, unharmed but helpless under an icicle he had pulled over on himself. Icicle's weight: 300 Ib...
...muck of their billion-bodied mass. One mass of locusts crossing the Red Sea covered an area of 2,000 sq. mi. Said Britain's Russian-born entomologist, Boris Petrovich Uvarov, locust-control authority and a chief organizer of the new campaign: "The world suffers 15,000,000 Ib. worth of crop losses yearly through locusts-in other words, man yearly grows 15,000,000 Ib. of crops to feed locusts. . . . Since they know no boundaries and require no passports, their control is possible only by international arrangement...
...Wyckoff of the Agricultural Marketing Administration declares that production of dehydrated vegetables alone is seven times that of two years ago, reached 100,000,000 Ib. in 1942. "Within the next year," says Wyckoff, "we will have to be dehydrating vegetables at the rate of at least 350,000,000 to 400,000,000 Ib., a development in the food industry that probably cannot be paralleled in any other industry." For dehydrated meats, practically nonexistent here a year back, requirements approached 60,000,000 Ib. in 1942. "To meet the 1943-44 dehydrated food requirements as presently known," Wyckoff adds...