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Today Ordnance's big job is production -in which it has had the yeoman help of U.S. business. One of the outstanding jobs of U.S. defense is Ordnance's building of a great powder, shot & shell industry (TIME, Oct. 20). But Ordnance was not ready with prepared designs of modern weapons for industry to manufacture. To meet World War II, it had no outstand ing tank models. It had developed no outstanding artillery piece. The one weapon peculiar to the U.S. Army that it developed was an infantry piece: the semiautomatic Garand rifle...
...late autumn, the yellow and red pigments, following the green, disintegrate in the leaves. This final unmasking reveals the dull brown tannins, which are chemically so stable that they remain till the leaf rots to powder. Unlike flower pigments, which have the vital function of attracting pollen-spreading insects and birds, autumn's colorful foliage is just a meaningless, glorious show...
...flotation process, ores are first ground to powder and mixed with a frother. This is an oil or an acid which attaches itself to some powder particles but not to others. Then the ores are dumped into water and stirred (usually by compressed...
...needs this alcohol. Each time a 16-inch naval gun is fired, 1,500 Ib. of smokeless powder, which took 60 gallons of alcohol to manufacture, is blasted into air and even a rifle shot blows up enough alcohol to make a cocktail. U.S. alcohol output is not geared to this kind of shooting. Regular producers like Commercial Solvents and U.S. Industrial Alcohol have nearly doubled their output since March, can go no further because of the shortages in copper and machine tools needed for new stills. Yet reserve stocks are only 5,000,000 gallons (three or four days...
...shortage into a surplus. This will cut whiskey production by only 12-15%, not enough to worry barflies (current liquor stocks could last for five years). The Government meanwhile rids itself of some near-useless, near-rotting corn. The transportation squeeze is helped a bit because most distilleries and powder plants are in the same area-Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia...