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Senator O'Mahoney's rock-bottom argument was that, even if the industry is lily-white today, the Bailey-Van Nuys bill would be "a charter from Congress to do what they please in the future." Tongue in cheek, he also suggested two nullifying amendments to the bill, designed to make State regulation as effective as Federal antitrust procedure...
...concern, operator of Alcoa's Pacific fleet of nine ships. Through such a deal, Alcoa would acquire: 1) enough ships to water-haul alumina from its Mobile, Ala. plant to the West Coast, thereby saving enough on rail costs to cut prices; 2) huge clay deposits near Castle Rock, Wash., where it could set up its own alumina-from-clay plant...
Airdrome runways are built by coolie-hand. At the main base three Americans direct thousands of Chinese laborers in the constant process of reconstruction and repair. Asphalt and concrete runways are practically unknown; most of the strips are paved with mud, hand-poured and bound with crushed rock. On a very few fields the Fourteenth has strips of the Chinese version of asphalt, made of tung oil, resin, sand and hand-chipped rock...
Conventional oil drilling is vertical: drill ers bore a narrow shaft down through the layer of sedimentary rock in which the oil is stored. From the small shaft surf ace they usually get only about 20% of the oil actually present...
...Germans and Japs cannot apparently retaliate in kind. White phosphorus is made from phosphate rock. With the occupation of North Africa, the last big deposits were taken from Axis hands...