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...newcomers were Packard, Plymouth, Studebaker. All showed the same trend: longer, lower bodies, further streamlining, an impression of massiveness attained by redesigned front ends, cartwheel-sized hubcaps, heavy grilles, thigh-thick bumpers. Amazing was their glitter. The touted shortage of chrome, nickel, other bright metals was not in evidence on the surface. The use of plastics was up, but not much more than in recent years. Some details...
...Executive Director he will present it to his Board. The seven directors will then take a vote. Their decision is final unless the losing side appeals it to the President. (Mr. Roosevelt has served notice that he does not want to be bothered with appeals from every nickel-nickel decision downstairs...
...European Russia would also ease Hitler's shortage of manganese, aluminum, lead and zinc-but not markedly. He would get little badly needed copper, nickel, tin or gold out of the Russian earth, but probably one of his greatest quick gains would be millions of tons of scrap metals, of many sorts, from wrecked Russian machinery and weapons...
Chemist Boyer last week hoped for "limited production" by 1943, said "there's lots of development work to do." Plastic bodies would relieve some of Detroit's immediate worries over steel and chrome, but not over copper, zinc, nickel, other shortages. Nor could it easily get the new presses and tools to work the plastics. But in normal times, plastic cars would take some 10% of the steel industry's market and give it to farmers. The new Ford was the first gun in a technological revolution that may begin when the other guns are stilled...
Typical problems for Sir Kenneth: The June issue of the British Export Gazette contained an advertisement offering all kinds of electric equipment plus copper and aluminum for immediate delivery anywhere. Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. recently had a cable from Britain offering alnico, an alloy of aluminum, nickel, copper and iron unavailable in the U.S. because of priorities, essential to Zenith's battery sets. In both cases deliveries were stopped by British export control...