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Basic Materials: Aluminum, antimony, asbestos, chromium, cotton linters, flax, graphite, hides, industrial diamonds, manganese, magnesium, manila fibre, mercury, mica, molybdenum, optical glass, platinum group metals, quartz crystals, quinine, rubber, silk, tin, toluol (coal-tar derivative used in TNT), tungsten, vanadium, wool...
...When tested, Inventor Barlow's oxygen bomb?so much more powerful- than TNT that Senators burned the minutes describing...
...tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs of a flyweight, the shoulders of a lightweight, the forearms of a middleweight. Somewhere in those forearms there was an arsenal of TNT. Seven of his opponents in a row had fallen like tenpins...
Last January, in its annual report, Atlas Powder Co. revealed that its new TNT plant at Wilmington was booked to capacity-through this year and into the first half of 1941-by rearmament orders of the U. S. Government and others. Last week, in a report to SEC, Atlas revealed how the belligerents have managed to get a preferred place on its TNT order books: $1,427,000 has been lent to Atlas by France and England, interest free, to be used for building a new TNT plant. All its output is to go to the Allies for shells, bombs...
...much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding French freighter not to send out radio alarms, take off her jittery crew, shell her or set some TNT below, and give her a one-way ticket to Davy Jones. Then get away...