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...white cells pass through and are carefully collected in a second centrifuge. Meanwhile the plasma--the liquid medium in which the cells are suspended--flows into a mixing vessel where zinc salts are added to precipitate the gamma globulins of the blood and certain other plasma proteins...
...companies, already producing more than 90% of the free world's nickel, pushed ahead with expansion plans involving more than $160 million. Canada also moved to dominate world production of titanium. After putting up $40 million, Quebec Iron and Titanium Corp. (owned by Kennecott Copper and New Jersey Zinc) began mining the world's largest deposits of titanium ore in Quebec...
Though the nation's copper production was almost back to normal this week, the strike will cost the defense effort an estimated 30,000 tons of copper-scarcest material in the defense stockpile-as well as the zinc and lead mined with it. Result: a complete reshuffling of defense production schedules...
When the I.U.M.M.S.W. walked out, many members of A.F.L. craft unions who work in the same mines and plants refused to cross picket lines, bringing the total idled to 100,000. Production of strategic lead and zinc was cut along with copper. With 95% of the country's non-ferrous metal mining production shut down, the union appealed to President Truman to seize the industry. Instead, the President asked the workers to get back on the job while the Wage Stabilization Board investigates...
Many industries far outstripped the average gain. Of 26 industries sampled by BLS, nine (including lead, zinc and copper mining, the synthetic fiber industry) showed a rise in man-hour output of 10% or more. Productivity in the anthracite coal industry was off 4%, but for all the mining industry, it was up 6%, equal to the total rise scored during the eleven preceding year's. Manufacturers' productivity rose 8%, compared with the normal...