Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metallurgists estimated last week that actual and potential uses could absorb 100 to 120 million ounces of silver this year (U.S. production in 1941: 70 million ounces). Hardy & Harman, famed Manhattan silver refiners and dealers, used to have about 500 customers, mostly in jewelry and other crafts. Now they have 15,000 customers, mostly in industry. Where they used to send out salesmen, they now send engineers...
Chief industrial use for silver is the silver brazing alloy, which brings about an almost instantaneous "wedding" of separate metal parts. The alloy has a melting point between 1,175 and 1,300 degrees F., avoiding the injury to metals which sometimes results from the 1,600-degree heat required for base-metal alloys...
...test of the silver brazing alloy process, steel noses were attached to 29,000 bombs in a 22-hour day by a single plant. Highest hourly rate...
...Silver-alloyed bombs delivered to U.S. armed forces in November were re-delivered to the Japs by plane last month...
...ships, piping takes up much valuable space. When silver brazing alloy is used instead of threaded joints, the thickness of the pipe can be reduced about one-half. It can be installed more quickly...