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...scarce materials is to take them from industries using the most. He figures a 50% auto cut (along with a 30-50% cut in refrigerators and washing machines ordered at the same time) would save 4,250,000 tons of iron and steel, besides much nickel, aluminum, copper, chromium, zinc...
...Business Review, Leon Henderson and OPM Purchasing Chief Donald Nelson, in a joint article expounding Government price philosophy ("the results of our thinking thus far"), agreed that free prices were still the best medicine for some defense problems. Example: mercury, where a doubling of price has doubled production, and zinc, where a 60% price increase reopened many a closed mine. Their doctrine: "No price advance shall be prevented when it is contributing to our prime objective of increasing production...
...legislation on the price front, turned his attention to civilian supply. First move: obtaining (from OPM, which administers all priorities) priority status for such essential civilian industries as transportation, communication, utilities, food processing, farm equipment, mining. That means that orders of a bus line, for example, for zinc for gears and battery rods will come ahead of an organ maker's order for pipes...
...Zinc...
Under industry-wide mandatory priorities, which means that no supplier can sell them except to customers who have priority rating, were 14 materials: aluminum, borax (and boric acid),* copper, cork, ferro-tungsten, machine tools, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, polyvinyl chloride (for plastics), rubber, synthetic rubber, tungsten high-speed steel, zinc. Pig iron was soon to be added. So were some heavy chemicals-sulfuric acid and possibly ammonia...