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...priced skyhigh. Telephones (which need 48 different materials from 18 foreign countries), automobiles (300 items from 56 foreign countries) and shoe polish (eight items from abroad) would be scarce and more expensive. Said Harold Stassen last year: "The U.S. depends on the outside world for 100% of its tin, mica, asbestos and chrome, for 99% of its nickel, 95% of its manganese, 93% of its cobalt, 67% of its wool, 65% of its bauxite, 55% of its lead, 42% of its copper...
...Strategic items under flat embargo were reduced from 260 to 170. Permitted exports include crude oil, diesel oil, mica, non-military tires, non-turbine locomotives, air-conditioning equipment, general-purpose machine tools, light generators, light tractors. Raw copper is still banned, but copper wire is released...
RUSSIA'S TRADE with the West will pick up. Under British pressure, 15 nations (including the U.S.) have agreed to lift export controls on crude and diesel oils, light machine tools, farm tractors, copper wire, air conditioners, mica, tungsten, some 150 other products. Still under embargo: 170 strategic items, including weapons, uranium and airplanes...
...Australia. In addition to nests these happy birds build bowers of twigs and sticks, some exquisitely decorated with fern fronds, mosses and berries; the bower's sole purpose is for recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark in his beak for a brush, mixes the charcoal with saliva, which is forced through the sides of his bill to be spread with the piece...
HIGH-GRADE MICA, too costly to mine in the U.S., will soon be made synthetically for the electronics industry. Mycalex Corp. of Clifton, N.J. has found an inexpensive way to make mica of magnesium, aluminum, silicon and fluorine, is ready to swing into large-scale production after successfully operating a pilot plant. Eventually, the process may make the U.S. less dependent on foreign supplies of high-grade mica, 95% of which (about 26 million lbs. annually) is imported from India...