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...essential needs are concerned. Lead and antimony, on WPB's requirements list, both show a slight excess of supply. Though manganese is now taking some of the load off nickel, the supply situation looks good enough-so that imports have recently been curtailed, at least temporarily. Chromium is one metal about which U.S. stockpilers were so forehanded that-combined with new domestic production (see below)-all appears to be well...
Tricky Boules. Like natural rubies and sapphires,* synthetics are simply fused aluminum oxide. A tiny trace of chromium oxide makes jewels a ruby-red color, titanium oxide makes them sapphire-blue. Color is unimportant in industrial jewels except as it makes them easier to see, cut, assemble...
...Vienna during the tragic days of the Anschluss, when Hitler's tanks and troops paraded endlessly through the silent streets—had his bags Gestapoed at the hotel every day for four days running by a Himmler agent with the odd habit of leaving little chromium swastikas as calling cards...
...Cleveland, metallurgists of Union Carbide & Carbon—biggest U.S. maker of ferrochrome, vital ingredient of stainless steel (usual formula: 18% chromium, 8% nickel)—announced that at last the behavior and strength of stainless steel under aerial conditions can be predicted with scientific exactitude...
...Mullen's results are rarely as heroic as her efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...