Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toluene-the conclusive T in TNT-goes under full allocation next week. So there will be less for paint solvents, dyes, etc., for civilian use. But for such currently essential uses as blowing the Axis to pieces, the production future of toluene looks bright. Furthermore there is a happy coincidence between the techniques of toluene and aviation gasoline production...
...even this feverish expansion brought U.S. toluene capacity to only 20,000,000 gallons a year (equal to 200,000,000 lb. of TNT); and in 1939 it was still around that level. Since then it has increased by leaps & bounds-and has become a military secret...
...Electric in 1901 when it had 1,000 customers, about $6,000,000 assets. Now it has 365,000 customers, over $270,000,000 assets. It has also a smart balance between steam and hydro plants (66-34 ratio) and low rates. Deep in the defense program (serving airplane, TNT, cartridge and ordnance plants), Union spent $20,000,000 on expansion in 1941, will spend another $21,000,000 this year. It has never lost money, in 1937-41 averaged $7,000,000 profits annually. Only blotch on Union: two years ago it was caught buying politicians...
...highly secret" ammunition Great Britain recently put to work (TIME, Nov. 10). Whether in fact the Army's new explosive is identical with the British blaster, the Ordnance Department is not saying, but it does admit that its mysterious new stuff wallops 40% harder than TNT, hitherto the strongest bursting charge in general...
When the potent new explosive goes into mass production, it will head an impressive list of U.S. military explosives. Chief items: TNT, amatol (a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate for artillery shells and aerial bombs), smokeless powder (long in use as a propellant), tetryl (used in shell boosters to provoke the detonation of laggardly TNT or amatol). Least sensitive of all the Ordnance powders is ammonium pictrate, which is used in armor-piercing projectiles because it can wham through steel without going off at first impact...