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While the rest of Venezuela battened on oil, the cattlemen struggled with the legacy of civil wars, a virulent malaria known as la fiebre económica (Venezuelans quip that if it hits in the morning, your only expense is a coffin at night) and the 27-year exploitation of Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gómez. Their worst headache: the senseless three-to-four-week trek to Gómez's slaughterhouse near the coast (over 20% of the cattle's weight was lost...
...commercially feasible process of making synthetic mica. (The U.S. must import its supply of natural mica...
Brazil's strategic raw materials (mica, quartz crystal, industrial diamonds, manganese, chrome, tantalum) still have an insatiable market at excellent prices. Since foreign manufactures are hard to get, Brazilian factories have most of the domestic market to themselves. New industries have sprung up, old industries have expanded. A big gainer: the textile industry...
That fight will come before June 30, when President Roosevelt's wartime price-control powers expire. These powers permit the President to pay subsidies for "strategic or critical materials." Opposition Congressmen say they meant magnesium, chrome and mica; the President has assumed, that they could also have meant butter, meat and milk. Congress may not take away the powers he has assumed −a two-thirds vote will be needed. But by simple majority vote, they may well reduce those powers. Already the Farm Bloc's Jesse P. Wolcott, Republican, of Port Huron, Mich., was loading...
...Marvin Jr., chairman of WPB's Interdepartmental Air Cargo Priorities Committee, in a year-end summary of work done, told how air cargoes of vital raw materials arrived only a few hours before the last reserves were scraped from the bottom of U.S. stockpiles. Without planeloads of mica, quartz crystals, tantalate, columbite, industrial diamonds and rare drugs, the production lines of magnetos, electrical apparatus, stainless steel and medicines would have stopped dead...