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Bombers also take a lot of magnesium alloys. U.S. magnesium production in 1940: 13,000,000 lb. Jones's RFC last week stepped farther into this field as well, put up $50,000,000 to build new Government-owned magnesium plants' However the supply of such vital military materials may fare this year and next, defense is already changing the industrial face...
...Government attached
funds of the giant I. G. Farbenindustrie, German dye trust. Indicted
last winter with several U.S. companies for violating the antitrust
laws in the magnesium industry, officials refused to appear, contending
they were not doing business as a U.S. corporation. The Attorney
General claimed that the seizure (timed with expected receipt of
$250,000 due I. G. Farbenindustrie that same day for license fees from
U.S. firms) would compel the dye trust to appear before a U.S. court if it
wanted to protest, w
...content with cracking the West Coast cement market and invading the never-before-invaded magnesium industry (TIME, March 3), he applied to OPM last week for a certificate of necessity to build $150,000,000 worth of steel mills in the West. His plans include blast furnaces in Utah for Rocky Mountain coal and ore; electric furnaces near Bonneville Dam to use cheap Government power to convert the Utah pig and scrap iron into high-grade steel; a plant in Southern California to use electricity and natural gas (first time on a commercial scale) to smelt local ore; a plate...
...spent $1,062,000, once had a staff of 182 experts, looked into 95 different industries, heard 552 witnesses. It made headlines month after month with sensational charges of patent monopoly in the glass-container industry, of international patent combines which put Germany's finger in the U.S. magnesium and optical-glass industries, etc. As its permanent record it left 37 volumes of printed testimony, 43 exhaustive monographs on various phases of its study...
Fortnight ago, OPM's Priorities Division acknowledged the strain on aluminum and machine tools, put their customers on rations (TIME, March 10). Last week three more industries went under full priorities. Two-nickel and magnesium-were competitors of aluminum (nickel is an ingredient of stainless steel). The third was neoprene, the high-cost Du Pont synthetic which too many defense manufacturers prefer to rubber (for gaskets, hose...