Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessmen last week awaited the solution of a 95-year-old corporate mystery: the financial setup of powerful, respectable New Jersey Zinc Co., founded in 1848 and one of the world's largest zinc miners. The answer will come when the estate of its former board chairman, the late Edgar Palmer, unveils detailed corporation figures, thus greases the ways to sell some 400,000 shares of New Jersey Zinc common. This block represents working control of the company (20%) and must be sold to pay inheritance taxes...
...soon will have refineries at work. She has enough rubber to sell some to Russia'. She has acquired iron in Kcjrea, Indo-China, Malaya and the Philippines-enough for an annual steel production of something less than 8,000,000 tons; coal in Korea and China; lead and zinc in Burma; bauxite in Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies; chrome in the Philippines; antimony in China. Her facilities for processing these metals are not altogether satisfactory. She can count on rice from Burma, Thailand, Formosa; sugar from the Philippines and Netherlands Indies; soybeans from China. Lumber, especially for shipping...
...fuel supply at an increasing rate, will gradually get hotter during the next ten billion years. By that time the earth's surface temperature will be lifted to about 750° Fahrenheit, hot enough to boil away the oceans, char organic matter, and melt tin, lead and zinc. Then the last of the sun's hydrogen atoms will be converted into helium. With no more fuel on hand, the sun will cool and fade...
...strictly a laboratory curiosity until Dr. William S. Murray, now of Indium Corporation of America, went to work on it in 1924. At that time only one gram was available and it was worth considerably more than platinum. Dr. Murray found that indium could be extracted commercially from a zinc ore mined near Kingman, Ariz. Last year the potential supply was figured at more than two million grams (4,400 Ib.) annually, at a cost of about 40? an ounce. At the rate that it is being put to work, much of that will be needed soon...
...firm because of his knowledge of manufacturing. A graduate of Annapolis, where he was a classmate of Admiral Leahy, Harry Kimball failed to stay in the Navy because he was one of the seasickest midshipmen ever enrolled. Instead he went to work for Boston Edison, became president of American Zinc, later went to Remington Arms, which he piloted through World...