Minerals and Metals for War Purposes: Hearings Before the Committee on Mines and Mining United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on the Bill H.R. 11259 to Provide Further for the National Security and Defense by Encouraging the Production, Conserving the Supply, and Controlling the Distribution of Those Ores, Metals, and Minerals which Have Formerly Been Largely Imported, Or of which There is Or May by an Inadequate Supply |
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... industry . It is apparently not the particular business of any other Govern- ment organization to follow this up . The War Industries Board is doing a certain amount of work along this line . The Bureau of Mines has been doing excellent ...
... industry . It is apparently not the particular business of any other Govern- ment organization to follow this up . The War Industries Board is doing a certain amount of work along this line . The Bureau of Mines has been doing excellent ...
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... industry . The steel industry would go out of business unless they could get a manganese supply . Senator STERLING . Was that reduced for the same reason as the reduction in the importation of pyrite ? Mr. LEITH . Exactly ; all of those ...
... industry . The steel industry would go out of business unless they could get a manganese supply . Senator STERLING . Was that reduced for the same reason as the reduction in the importation of pyrite ? Mr. LEITH . Exactly ; all of those ...
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... Industries Board , and the principal effort at allocation , as I under- stand it now , is being made by the War Industries Board under Mr. Baruch . That allocation has not yet actually gone very far . There have been a great many ...
... Industries Board , and the principal effort at allocation , as I under- stand it now , is being made by the War Industries Board under Mr. Baruch . That allocation has not yet actually gone very far . There have been a great many ...
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... industry , and any small shortage in chromite would damage the steel industry . It is a very essential commodity . The CHAIRMAN . Your object in taking off any was simply to save shipping for other purposes ? Mr. LEITH . Simply to save ...
... industry , and any small shortage in chromite would damage the steel industry . It is a very essential commodity . The CHAIRMAN . Your object in taking off any was simply to save shipping for other purposes ? Mr. LEITH . Simply to save ...
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... industry - you always have to allow for a certain margin of safety and allow for certain con- tingencies , because . so many things will happen . Senator JONES of New Mexico . In the first place , it is impossible to tell how much ore ...
... industry - you always have to allow for a certain margin of safety and allow for certain con- tingencies , because . so many things will happen . Senator JONES of New Mexico . In the first place , it is impossible to tell how much ore ...
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Page 3 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
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