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...local and national power diminished in the last year. At least, the assembled pols knew Arvey. Most of them did not even recognize Richard Balch, chairman of the once-powerful New York State organization. The voice of labor was muted, too. The C.I.O.'s James Carey and Jack Kroll offered little advice and were asked for less. Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who has caused hard feelings with his demands for 100% party loyalty, was not present. Many Southern bigwigs stayed South. Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who does not often consult noncongressional Democratic leaders, was in Texas...
Early Bird. Crane's President Holloway started following up his ideas on titanium shortly after Du Pont produced the first small batches of titanium metal in 1948. Then, as now, the best process for getting the metal out of the ore was the Kroll one, which extracts the titanium "sponge" as a clinker by using magnesium to drive it out of a solution. By 1951, Crane's researchers had improved this process to a point where Holloway was willing to gamble $2,000,000 on a pilot plant in Chicago. The plant worked so well that DMPA says...
Last week, after five months abroad, the New York City Ballet wound up its tour at the Berlin Festival, won the expected show-stopping applause and unexpectedly high critical praise. Wrote Critic Erwin Kroll in Der Tag: "What an art, what a harmony of movement, what a cultural achievement!" A lot of Berliners thought the tour was better cultural propaganda than a year of broadcasts...
...years, titanium dioxide (a powder) has been used in paint, while metallurgists sought to smelt it into a metal. It was not until 1946 that William Kroll, a metallurgist for the Bureau of Mines, managed to produce small grey spongelike globs of metal which could be cast into ingots. The Bureau sent a memo on titanium to Colonel John Dick, 49, chief of the Materials and Components Division of the Air Force Industrial Resources Directorate, "who became a one-man publicity bureau for the metal, began plugging it to the armed services...
...same time, Dick urged private industry to step up its titanium efforts. Du Pont, which had begun smelting the metal with Kroll's process, increased production from 50 to some 2,000 Ibs. of raw metal a day. The first big boost came last August when the Government approved a fast tax write-off on a $14 million investment of Titanium Metals Corp., jointly owned by Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. and National Lead (TIME, Aug. 20). The money was used to convert facilities at the Government's $140 million wartime magnesium plant in Henderson, Nev. into a titanium...