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...Flying Jeep. A stubby, lightweight Jeep (almost 3 ft. shorter, 1,200 Ibs. lighter than standard models), designed for airlift by helicopter or plane, was shown off by Willys Motors, Inc. It has an all-aluminum body and magnesium wheels; 85% of the parts are interchangeable with regular Jeeps...
...billion in plant expansion, and has completed about two-thirds of the total. The job has been done so well that Chief Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming will issue no further tax write-offs for 120 of the 237 defense categories. Among them: blast furnaces, brass mills, metal cans, magnesium, oil wells, paper, rubber, optical glass. Furthermore, Flemming has suspended fast tax write-offs for another 49 categories, including military aircraft, electric power and machine tools, while he takes a second look. The belief is that the U.S. may have enough capacity in those groups, too. But what of the other...
...billion worth was constructed, "and since Korea, the whopping total of $27.8 billion for new defense facilities, with quick write-offs covering 61% ($16.8 billion) of the total cost. Petroleum refining is expanding by 10%, steel by 23%, iron ore by 50%, electric power by 56%, aluminum by 143%, magnesium by 512%, and titanium...
Frenchmen who still pictured the South as a Scarlett O'Hara land of cotton plantations and Negro mammies were put wise: "To tell the truth, we did not see much cotton in the South. What we saw was oil, natural gas, helium, steel, magnesium, atomic energy and chemical plants." The Gossets were impressed with the advance of Negro education; they called all-Negro Howard University (in Washington, D.C.) "more modern than the average European university." To the French reporters, the Vieux Carre of French New Orleans was a fake-with its "pretentious airs of romanticism," its "tourist traps...
...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 Crane's method is the most...