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...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...
...other hand, needs copper, zinc and lead, not gold. A change for fiscal reasons in its gold-purchase policy is the farthest thing from the Treasury's mind. But the U.S. had another club over Empire miners, and it was fingering this club last week. It can refuse to export any new gold-mining machinery, which many an Empire mine-to maintain and (in some cases) expand production-is still trying to buy in the U.S. Before long SPAB is due to rule on these pleas, and the odds are that SPAB will be pretty tough, will...
...Corronizing," a new metal-plating process, can cut by 50 to 90% the amounts of zinc and tin now used to galvanize and tin-plate iron and steel. With ordinary electroplating equipment, a thin film of nickel is first deposited on the metal, then a layer of zinc or tin much thinner than usual is added. Baking then fuses the two coats into an alloy whose exceptional resistance to rust and corrosion has already been demonstrated on wire screens, and on Sears, Roebuck's insecticide spray tanks. Even though small amounts of nickel are required, the net result...
...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...
...Zinc. Japan produces about 40% of her consumption...