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...with the best claim to discovery of radar's principle was the 19th Century German physicist Heinrich Hertz, who in 1887 bounced a hertzian (radio) wave off a zinc plate and caught its echo on a resonant circle of copper wire...
...principles of stresses in metals, they weaken airplane connecting rods by making deep stencils of serial numbers in them). But the Japs have not had to be careful. They have enough copper to make their cartridge cases of brass, have been lavish in the use of nickel, zinc, manganese, aluminum and other precious alloys...
...sudden flood of Army orders also washed all the complacency out of other metal markets. Tin, zinc and lead were all back on the critical-shortage list (along with lesser items like antimony, tungsten and cadmium). Metal men who had talked of plans to revive a little bit of production for civilian uses tossed many plans for the 4,200 spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even...
...reborn power and greatness." In effect, the General told the Big Three that the Big Fourth reserved all rights in the Far Eastern colony seized by the Japs before Pearl Harbor. Indo-China-bigger than France, with a population of 23,000,000, rich in rice, rubber, tin and zinc-is the French Empire's most precious colony...
...cruel blow. At Gleiwitz was a synthetic fuel plant that employed 38,000. It had been moved to "safe" Silesia from the air-vulnerable Ruhr. Near by was a great new engine works, also built far from the Allied bomber fields. At Beuthen was the biggest zinc mine in Europe. Out of Katowice had poured automobiles, chemicals, machine tools. Out of the basin had gone much of the coal for the industries and railroads of the eastern Reich and Czechoslovakia...