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Biggest foreign supplier (25% in 1940) has been Russia. Last month the Nazis captured the Nikopol manganese beds in the Ukraine, but the blockade has cut off Russian shipments anyway. Except for Cuba's 10% contribution, most other U.S. manganese supplies come by long, dangerous hauls from the Gold Coast, South Africa, India, Brazil. Federal stockpile builders have accumulated enough warehoused manganese (some 2,000,000 tons) to last for two years of arms-making-but nobody knows how much will be needed before the war is over...
...days for electric-light bulbs. During the lunch hour speakers from the intellectuals explained, but did not end, these waits. "One must remember," they said with their statistics, "that we lost 60% of our iron production when the Fascists took Krivoi Rog. We lost 45% of our manganese at Nikopol. At Leningrad 49% of our tire industry...
...immediately after Promoter Harriman received his concession, Soviet agents attempted to circumvent him by working the manganese mines at Nikopol in the Ukraine, north of the Black...
Last week, according to the Berliner Tageblatt, the Soviet Government, perhaps intending to vex Great Britain, agreed to restrict manganese mining at Nikopol, to take only $1.50 a ton for Harriman-mined manganese, and to waive its demand for renovating the Tiflis-Poti railroad. Those modifications made Promoter Harriman virtual overlord of Soviet manganese production...