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...Vending-machine makers next month will get 50% less iron and steel than last year, 75% less zinc. > Vacuum-cleaner production for the first quarter will be cut 25-40%. > Electric-light-bulb output will be cut to 1940 volume, about 20% under 1941. Purpose : to save brass and tungsten. > OPM, in a precedent-setting move, ordered all sulphite pulp producers to set aside a monthly pool for allocation to 120 customers of three competing manufacturers (Rayonier, Eastern Corp., Brown Co.) who are too busy with explosives contracts to handle their regular business. > General Motors has received...
...vast expansion of the plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...
...this war for years. She has stocks on hand, said the Ministry, for an all-out war for at least twelve months. Japan can probably mobilize another million men for action before it cuts seriously into her industrial production. Japan has abundant stockpiles of such key materials as chrome, tungsten, phosphates, copper, zinc. Most of these materials were purchased from the U.S. and Allied countries during the past few years. Said one U.S. soldier in the Philippines when a bomb dropped near him: "We sold 'em this stuff and now they're giving it back...