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...Brooklyn Dodger Lineman Perry Schwartz dropped his 200 Ib. on it in a recent game with the Philadelphia Eagles...
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...
...needs this alcohol. Each time a 16-inch naval gun is fired, 1,500 Ib. of smokeless powder, which took 60 gallons of alcohol to manufacture, is blasted into air and even a rifle shot blows up enough alcohol to make a cocktail. U.S. alcohol output is not geared to this kind of shooting. Regular producers like Commercial Solvents and U.S. Industrial Alcohol have nearly doubled their output since March, can go no further because of the shortages in copper and machine tools needed for new stills. Yet reserve stocks are only 5,000,000 gallons (three or four days...
...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...