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...nevertheless saw the start of such warfare last week on the chief Latin-American front: Brazil. A strategic loophole was plugged with a preclusive buying arrangement. Brazil stopped exporting-except to this Hemisphere and Britain-important war materials such as manganese, rubber, industrial diamonds, quartz crystal, mica...
...Given adequate stock piles of tin, high-grade mica, radio quartz, industrial diamonds, and a half-dozen deficient ferroalloying minerals and certain tropical plant materials, we could be virtually independent of overseas imports for years at a time," Mr. Tyler said...
...week he announced that one of them, frail M. I. T. man John Henry Walthall, had developed a new process for extracting alumina (raw material of aluminum) from common clay, which abounds in TVAland. Other TVA discoveries include methods for making a cork insulation substitute out of vermiculite (a mica-like rock), for deriving magnesium from olivine, plastics from cottonseed hulls...
Onetime official in Rumania's Department of Industry and Commerce, Gigurtu helped form great Mica Co., largest Rumanian gold-producing concern (in a country which produced $6,204,961 worth in 1937) and a company which occupies in the Rumanian financial picture the same status that U. S. Steel does in the U. S. He is also a power in Rumanian aviation, publishing (the weekly Libertea), and Rightist politics...
Basic Materials: Aluminum, antimony, asbestos, chromium, cotton linters, flax, graphite, hides, industrial diamonds, manganese, magnesium, manila fibre, mercury, mica, molybdenum, optical glass, platinum group metals, quartz crystals, quinine, rubber, silk, tin, toluol (coal-tar derivative used in TNT), tungsten, vanadium, wool...