Word: silicones
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Steel & Copper. A case in point was a big shipment of silicon steel (vital for electrical equipment) by Boston's Pacific Trading Corp. Pacific Trading's President Shao Ti Hsu calmly told O'Conor's Senate subcommittee that he bought the steel in Belgium and France, shipped it to China via New York. Did Hsu know that it is illegal to export silicon steel from the U.S. to Communist China? Yes, said Hsu, but the Commerce Department had told him that it was O.K. as long as the steel had not originated in the U.S. That...