Gas Industry Fuels War Effort With Gas Supply Power
The gas industry, a one million dollar sector, produced 2,213,731,000,000 cubic feet of gas in 1942, powering war plants and homes. Natural gas and by products supply fuel, solvents, chemicals, and materials for munitions, aircraft, and synthetic rubber, with major use in steel and Navy and Aeronautics facilities.
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America
Navy Department
Bureau of Yards
Mare Island
California
Bureau of Aeronautics
Marine Corps
Gas Industry of
Antimony Development eyed for Arkansas mineral industry
Arkansas Geological Survey urges consolidation and financing to unlock antimony deposits in Sevier Howard Clark counties. Stibnite veins near shale beds mark sites with ore grades around 50 to 53 percent antimony. Historical output 569 short tons by 1924, 1940 metal price about 14 cents per pound.
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Arkansas
Joe W. Kimzey
Geological Survey
Kimzey
Sevier
Howard
Pike and Clark
Howard and Clark
United States
Silk Stockings From Spider Silk Stir War Effort
State College Pennsylvania report notes spider silk could make stockings but requires about 24000 feet of fiber and is prohibitively expensive to produce. Spider silk is very strong and could stretch back to shape, with a square inch supporting 90000 pounds. It is valued for cross hairs and optical sight lines in military gear. The piece also mentions galls from another insect as a tannin source for burns treatment.
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State College
Penn
Stuart W. Frost
Pennsylvania State College
Sermons Turned into Musket Cartridges at Monmouth
Type for printed sermons from Benjamin Franklin's print shop were repurposed as musket cartridges used in the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolution.
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Benjamin Franklin
Monmouth
War Demands Boost Barite Mining at Magnet Cove Area
Back in 1900 diggers found barite near Magnet Cove in Hot Spring county while drilling for water. Today barite fuels America's war effort with Magnet Cove Barium Corporation and Baroid Sales Division of National Lead expanding plants and exporting domestically and abroad. The Magnet Cove deposit, though less pure due to local faults, is vast and well located for shipping, aided by a flotation process patented by L Roth Harrison Jr. and by nearby Butterfield facilities for storage and loading.
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Casey
Magnet Cove
Hot Spring County
America
Malvern
Magnet Cove Barium Corporation
Baroid Sales Division
South America
West Indies
L. Roth Harrison, Jr
Baroid Sales
Butterfield
Chicago
Rock Island
National Lead Company
Missouri
Texas
Oklahoma
Mis
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Arkansas Geological Survey
Cos
Anchor Post Fence Company
Houston, Texas
McKamie
GAS Cleaning CO
McKamie Gas
Magnolia, Arkansas
Barium
Hope, Arkansas
J. K. Mahony
Emon A. Mahony
EL Dorado, Arkansas
McKamie Gas Cleaning Co
McKamie Gas Cleaning Company
Stamps
South Arkansas
De-Sul
Louisville, Kentucky
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