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...problems are dumped in Geier's lap. Samples: ¶ The Air Force wants a tool that can cut 2,800 Ibs. of metal down to a complex wing gear weighing 200 Ibs., with contoured surfaces, tricky drill holes, etc. titanium ore into pieces of a certain size. Because the ore has never been handled before for manufacturing purposes, Cincinnati must first find out its qualities...
Rampaging wells and eager people are signs of the times in booming Alberta. All Canada has expanded amazingly since World War II; discoveries of iron ore, nickel, copper, uranium and titanium are cracking open a dozen new frontiers. But the biggest boom of all is in Alberta's oil, the most significant new find on the continent since Texas' Spindletop roared in, 50 years...
Violent Reaction. U.S. military production desperately needs titanium as a substitute for columbium, a rare metal which makes steel fit to stand the 1,600º hellfire inside a jet-engine combustion chamber. Almost all the world's supply of columbium ore comes from primitive mines in Nigeria; the U.S. was able to get only 1,727,000 Ibs. last year. Since world production of columbium cannot be stepped up for another three years, the U.S. has turned to titanium. Luckily, it is one of the most abundant minerals in the earth's crust, and the U.S. abounds...
...problem does not faze Allegheny Ludlum's Chairman Hiland G. Batcheller. As the world's biggest producer of stainless steel (210 million Ibs. shipped last year), his company has long had its eye on titanium. When National Lead, the biggest U.S. supplier of titanium ore, suggested a partnership two years ago, Batcheller jumped at the chance. Their co-owned subsidiary, using Allegheny-Ludlum's mills, has already been processing small quantities of the metal. But total production-including that of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.-this year will be only 500 tons. And the average...
...Limit. With the big-scale facilities at Henderson, and plenty of power from nearby Hoover and Davis Dams, Batcheller believes that Titanium Metals can bring down the price and boost U.S. production to 4,100 tons by September 1952, more than eight times the present world output. The immediate goal is to get enough for jet-engine alloys. But Titanium Corp. has its eyes on a far bigger potential market for the metal. Titanium, because it is 56% lighter than alloy steel, and heavier but 300% stronger than aluminum, has been dubbed the "middleweight champ." As the price comes down...