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...people were sure of it -the House of Representatives, for one lot. Flatly rejecting the Senate's liberal plan to give OCD unlimited funds, the House voted to appropriate $100,000,000 but to put the Army in charge of spending it. For Butch, not a nickel...
...when the vast expansion of the plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...
...Corronizing," a new metal-plating process, can cut by 50 to 90% the amounts of zinc and tin now used to galvanize and tin-plate iron and steel. With ordinary electroplating equipment, a thin film of nickel is first deposited on the metal, then a layer of zinc or tin much thinner than usual is added. Baking then fuses the two coats into an alloy whose exceptional resistance to rust and corrosion has already been demonstrated on wire screens, and on Sears, Roebuck's insecticide spray tanks. Even though small amounts of nickel are required, the net result...
Shotwelding is a refinement of spot welding designed for stainless steel (usual formula: 18% chromium, 8% nickel), whose great tensile strength-four times that of ordinary carbon steel-is lost when it is heated to 1,100° to 1,600°. The Shotwelding electrodes stab the metal for 1/10 th 1/20 th of a second, heating it so instantaneously through its danger zone to its 2,700° fusing point that the alloy's unique strength is not affected. Invented by Budd Manufacturing Co. (and used for making stainless steel railroad coaches), Shotwelding may well make steel planes...
...rarest and most complicated gadgets, are badly needed. Russia asked the U.S. for more than 30,000 tons of steel a month, especially for 5,000 tons a month of rare superhard tool steel;* for between 5,000 and 10,000 tons a month of aluminum; considerable quantities of nickel. The U.S. had to turn down a request for magnesium. Britain was asked for large supplies of rubber and jute...