Word: stainlessness
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...revolutionary trend in airplane production got off the ground last week: stainless steel. Aluminum, which has hitherto been aircraft metal No. 1, had a challenger on the production lines and battlefronts, and in the post-war future...
...Philadelphia, for Budd Manufacturing Co.—biggest U.S. builder of stainless-steel trains—the Government began to run up a vast plant which by next spring will be turning out all-steel air freighters, big-bellied and wide-hatched to carry troops, tanks, guns to the war's four quarters...
...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...
Inability to predict such behavior, plane builders have claimed, has long made them wary of stainless steel, which for aviation purposes must often be used in sheets as thin as .004 in. So they have stuck to aluminum, whose behavior under flight conditions is tried & tested...
...left over for 5,000,000 miles of aluminum electric transmission cable. It will have to market more tons of metal than all the U.S. copper companies combined have ever sold in a peacetime year. At present prices, aluminum costs $28 a cubic foot; magnesium, $25; copper, $66; and stainless steel $100. Alcoa well knows that after the war it will have to reduce its relative price still lower to find a market for the sixfold increase in its output...