Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Automatic pilots are in common use in such large, slow-reacting airplanes as airliners and bombers, but none of the conventional models was alert enough to fly a jet fighter. None was small enough either. A jet fighter is practically "solid"; it is hard to find a vacant cubic inch to stow additional equipment...
...Ridge National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission had a peculiar problem with its library. Scattered widely around the great reservation are many individual laboratories, and the scientists could not use the central library without great waste of time in transit. Worse yet, some of Oak Ridge's laboratories are "hot" (radioactive), and borrowed papers which might pick up radioactivity in a hot lab could not be returned to the library...
...Warned that it would soon be forced to order a cut in the nonmilitary use of tin by "something less than 30%" and that it might ban copper and cobalt for nonessential products where other metals can be substituted...
...Ordered suppliers of cadmium (used for electroplating other metals) to fill no more than 50% of their defense orders on hand, allot the rest to essential civilian use until a long-range cadmium program is drawn up. Reason: cadmium is in such short supply that defense orders alone would easily gobble up more of the metal than is now available...
That word was barely out when NPA had more bad news. To free more rubber for the stockpile, it ordered manufacturers to cut their use of natural rubber by 11% in January and 22% in February. The new orders would probably cut into supplies of tires and other civilian rubber products. But by June, when synthetic output is expected to reach 64,000 tons a month (v. 45,000 tons now), NPA hopes that the controls can be eased...