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...reserve generator of New York's Consolidated Edison Co. was bought by Defense Plant Corp. to be shipped from Hellgate to Dow Chemical Co.'s new magnesium plant in Texas...
...wetting agents (TIME, Jan. 5). Many of the phosphorescent pigments now manufactured in the U.S. are sulfides, chiefly of strontium, zinc, barium, calcium, cadmium, etc.; and a large group have formulas that are military secrets. The fluorescent pigments are chiefly beryllium and zinc silicates, cadmium borates, calcium and magnesium tungstates, and organic dyes...
...expansion of the plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...
When FBI's roundup of aliens last week caught Austrian-born, magnesium-wise Dr. Fritz J. Hansgirg at the Permanente Magnesium plant near San Francisco, rumors spread at once that Permanente 's magnesium-making might have to cease. They were false...
...steel is more than four times as strong as aluminum in pull and tension. Recent developments in structure mathematics now enable us, even in small planes, to build trusses of thin stainless steel of equal weight to duralumin [an alloy containing 95% aluminum, 4% copper, ½ % manganese and ½ % magnesium while in larger ships there is a greater advantage to the steel construction...