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...busy day & night. British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal: goods must be long-hauled by rail 2,000 miles to the north. But to unload farther north on China's coast, ships must run the Nationalists...
...World % of 1950 1950 % of Production Production total consumed Commodity (in tons) in U.S. in the U.S. Copper . . . . . . . . . 2,741,776 41% 50% Lead . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700,000 34 51 Zinc . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,010,048 45 50 Manganese . . . . . 3,375,000 5 50 Tungsten . . . . . . . 8,816 22 35 Cobalt . . . . . . . . . . 6,500 14 63 Nickel . . . . . . . . . . 170,000 ½ 50 Molybdenum . . . . 15,680 90 83 Wool . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000,000 (lbs.) 3 16 Cotton . . . . . . . . . . 31,400,000 (bales) 52 29 Natural Rubber...
...problem be solved? The 25-nation International Materials Conference last week was meeting in Washington to find some friendly method of splitting up the world's raw materials. An allocation plan for sulphur has already been drawn up, and plans are soon due for lead and zinc. The conference has already sent an emergency supply of 3,000 tons of newsprint to France...
...what they need for defense by earmarking the metals for them. Instead of priorities, which were merely "hunting licenses" for scarce materials, manufacturers will get what Fleischmann calls "cashier's checks" to draw the metal they need from the set-aside supply. The present cuts in steel, zinc, copper, etc. for civilian producers (TiME, March 5) will be continued, may even be deepened when CMP is in effect...
...bidding the price up again, the National Production Authority this week took control of all tin imports, announced it will allocate tin to industrial users. There seemed no reason why the same tactic could not be employed to bring down the price of other commodities, such as lead, wool, zinc and tungsten...