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...Esso incendiary is a 6½ lb., 19 in. length of six-sided pipe filled with gasoline thickened to a sticky, raspberry-pink jelly by the addition of a still-secret powder. This oil-bomb produces almost twice as much heat in proportion to weight as magnesium and spreads destruction much faster...
...least to Samson's day (he tied firebrands to the tails of 300 foxes and loosed them in the fields of the Philistines) has been developed in World War II to a fearsome degree. At the beginning of the war, both sides relied mainly on thermite and magnesium-filled bombs. Such bombs, as every air-raid warden knows, burn with terrible fury but are comparatively easy to put out if attacked in time...
...less spectacular fashion ammunition plants were shut down all over the nation, at least one of them before a single pound of powder had been made. The cutbacks hit aluminum, magnesium, pocketed the nation here & there with jobless. And they stirred up the fracas of the year between WPBoss Don Nelson and his tough, big-jawed vice chairman, Charlie Wilson...
...took the first big step toward orderly reconversion 'from war to peace by releasing surplus magnesium and aluminum for civilian production...
Daring Statesmanship. Having thus made familiar two dangerous-looking areas, Dr. Kaplan tackled the third sector, War Plant and Equipment. As he analyzed the problem, about half of the $15.5 billion of war plants built by the Government are large facilities in such lines as shipbuilding, aircraft, aluminum and magnesium. If ingenuity fails to convert such facilities to peacetime use, he recommends courage in boldly dismantling those which cannot economically serve the people. Probably not more than $5 billion can be readily transformed into peace factories. Since $5 billion represents only about two years of normal investment in plant expansion...