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...International Harvester Tractor Works threatened to spread to the huge McCormick Works next door. Struck were the Harvester Rock Falls, III. and Richmond, Ind. plants. Argument: higher wages. ¶ In Bridgeville, Pa., 400 workers who struck without authorization from their parent union were fired from their jobs at the Vanadium Corp. plant. Closed by another strike was the company's Niagara Falls plant...
Clair Motor Car Co.; after a stroke; in Detroit. As Ford's right-hand man for 16 years, he designed the Model T. As one of the nation's foremost metallurgists, he sponsored the use of vanadium and molybdenum steels in automobile construction, was busy perfecting a new alloy (amola) at the time of his death...
...habitual huge carry-over of wheat (this year, 288,000,000 bu.) the U. S. needs no wheat from Argentina. It needs no corn or meat grown in the fat lands of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and eastern Bolivia. Of South American metals, only tin, manganese, bauxite, platinum and vanadium could be bought by the U. S. without competition with its own economy. The U. S. could use rubber from Brazil, but Brazil's present output of rubber is negligible and it takes at least seven years for a rubber plantation to become commercially workable. Thus, several years and many...
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...
...sizable debt. Sweden and Finland are the only two nations with orthodox balanced budgets. Almost self-sufficient in raw materials except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia (1919-30), who borrowed heavily to build roads, improve sanitation and ease the lot of Peru's predominantly Indian population. Wide-girthed President Oscar Raimundo Benavides has continued this...