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...Government could collect all the automobiles in used-car lots. The Government could take the iron railings from around yards, balconies and estates. The Government could take the chromium plated and nickel-plated fixtures from homes. If it were done without favoritism, the American people would approve it. More than that, they would applaud...
Copper, zinc and nickel are cruelly short, with about one-fifth of the U.S.'s essential third-quarter needs going begging. On zinc, in fact, WPB still has no adequate estimate of what over-all requirements really are. And despite Canada's overwhelming share (80-85%) of world nickel production, war industry is gobbling it up so fast that would-be users are being shifted to other metals...
Some metal supplies are in good shape-at least so far as essential needs are concerned. Lead and antimony, on WPB's requirements list, both show a slight excess of supply. Though manganese is now taking some of the load off nickel, the supply situation looks good enough-so that imports have recently been curtailed, at least temporarily. Chromium is one metal about which U.S. stockpilers were so forehanded that-combined with new domestic production (see below)-all appears to be well...
...Monel-metal urinals (70% nickel, 30% copper), chrome-plated brass towel hangers, aluminum lockers, 13,000 lb. of brass name plates are among the Navy's specifications for a seaworthy cruiser...
...materials crisis. He wants a new, over-all review of all Army & Navy specifications, with particular emphasis upon using more secondary, reprocessed metals. He also believes that castings could replace metal-wasting machining operations in many cases, that silver could bear much more of the load borne by copper, nickel...