Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...From Sweden the U. S. imported annually 1,900 tons of powdered iron. Combined with other metals, the mixture is molded, pressed and impregnated with oil to make self-lubricating bearings (for autos, radios, etc.). With the U. S. supply virtually exhausted seven months ago, Glidden Co. put $100,000 into a new plant at Hammond, Ind. to make powdered metals, last week was turning out ten tons of powdered iron daily, selling at 14½ to 17? a lb.-within a hair's breadth of what the imported price used...
...Cigaret paper is hard to make. It must be thinner than a human hair, strong enough to fold without tearing, tasteless. It must not stick to the lips nor burn faster or slower than tobacco. Before the war the U. S. bought its yearly supply (some $4,000,000 worth) from France, which made the paper from old linen gathered by the ragpickers of Poland, Russia and the Balkans...
...found themselves with all but a fraction (Great Britain's) of the $100,000,000 U. S. pottery and china market on their hands. They were geared to supply two-thirds of it, no more. Last week they were so far behind on orders that they refused to make deliveries before early 1941. Yet they had licked one problem: prices were down to the level of the former imports...
...keep him warm. Wrote one harassed inhabitant in the Louisville Courier-Journal: ". . . Although we were paid well for our acreage, still it isn't so easy to stand by and see the familiar old oak, the lilacs, hollyhocks and roses around the door trampled under foot to make way for the giant smokestacks that rose almost overnight...
...faced Town Marshal Joe Peyton found his one-man job a nightmare, couldn't unsnarl the daily traffic jam that tied up the public square. A 300% increase in mail had the post office stumped. Five crews of linemen scrambled and shinnied to make telephone connections. Rushing to finish a much-needed sewage system, WPAsters built street-corner privies which indignant citizens threatened to burn. Sidewalk hawkers with pushcarts turned Charlestown into a Lower East Side. Jam-packed was the town's lone grog shop.-Every night was Saturday night and Saturday night was chaos...