Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needs), tin (20% of peacetime needs), aluminum, lead, mercury and phosphorus (almost none), rubber (none). Of such important alloy metals as antimony, chrome, nickel, manganese and tungsten, Japan produces scarcely...
...best way to conserve scarce materials is to take them from industries using the most. He figures a 50% auto cut (along with a 30-50% cut in refrigerators and washing machines ordered at the same time) would save 4,250,000 tons of iron and steel, besides much nickel, aluminum, copper, chromium, zinc...
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Under industry-wide mandatory priorities, which means that no supplier can sell them except to customers who have priority rating, were 14 materials: aluminum, borax (and boric acid),* copper, cork, ferro-tungsten, machine tools, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, polyvinyl chloride (for plastics), rubber, synthetic rubber, tungsten high-speed steel, zinc. Pig iron was soon to be added. So were some heavy chemicals-sulfuric acid and possibly ammonia...
...high time for this decision. In turning out 5,200,000 cars and trucks this year (1929 record: 5,400,000), Detroit had used up precious tons of steel, aluminum, chrome, nickel-not to mention hours of skilled labor and machine tools -needed for defense. In Army and Navy files were scores of cases where military contracts were delayed while parts manufacturers completed orders for Detroit. Last week J. Leonard Replogle, tough-minded director of steel supply on Barney Baruch's World War I Industries Board, called 1941's heavy automobile production "an inexcusable performance. . . . Will some German...