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Scrap. Japan, a big prewar buyer of U.S. steel scrap, offered to sell some postwar scrap. Through the New York trade office of SCAP (Supreme Commander for Allied Powers), the Japanese Board of Trade offered 137,000 metric tons of steel and scrap to the highest U.S. bidders...
...four mirrors, he was able to get four reflected views on one film: front, rear, side and one from directly overhead. The film is projected on a screen, half lifesize. Tailors read the measurements from the calibrated screen. The measurements are then fed into another Booth invention: the Photo-Metric calculator...
...Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents, dug out 177,000 metric tons of ore, sold it to Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. at a profit...
...last to finish his part of the project was Robert Chapin, whose department was responsible for the accompanying charts. The difficulty of getting year-end figures and of converting commodity exports to metric tons, etc. held Chapin up until 24 hours before his deadline. His department worked practically around the clock illustrating the significant phases of the story which could best be told with charts. Thanks to a break in the wintry weather, copies for the engravers arrived at TIME'S three printing plants on schedule...
...exports, the demands for ERP for the first 15 months, as drafted by the President, did not bulk overlarge. The biggest dollar item of all-food and feed-was 27% less (by volume) than the U.S. shipped abroad in the last 15 months. Iron & steel (3,104,000 metric tons) totaled only 37% of the last 15 months' exports; fuel was 80%; the $378,200,000 worth of machinery and equipment was only 14% and the 87,000 trucks and freight cars were less than a fourth of the 396,000 shipped in the last year and a quarter...