Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918–1946

Index

Adams, James A., 194–95 Adkerson, J. Carson, 93–94, 129–30 Africa, 3, 15, 124, 154 Agricola (Georg Bauer), 2 Alaska, 30 Alcoa (Aluminum Corporation of America), 58, 154 Alpine mine, 180, 195 aluminum, 22, 23, 152, 154, 162, 184, 202 American Cyanamid company, 111 American Federation of Labor, 96, 163 American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers (aime), 69, 172 American Legion, 122, 163, 164 American Manganese Producers Association , 93 American Mining Congress, 44, 49, 84, 87, 96, 142 American Tungsten Association, 130, 175 Amtorg, 78 Anaconda Corporation, 58, 158 antimony, 42, 144, 156 antitrust laws: exceptions in foreign commerce , 27, 41, 47; opposition to, 28, 126; prosecutions under, 20, 116–17, 120; relaxed enforcement of, 58, 84; support for, 87, 128, 137. See also cartels & cartelization App mine. See Dutch-Sweeny-App mines Argentina, 129 Arizona, 30, 31, 88, 102, 104, 124, 125, 129, 154 Arkansas, 154 armaments, 18–21, 28, 120, 160, 178, 202. See also ship construction armored plate. See armaments; ship construction arms industry, 20, 23, 139–40, 126, 183 Army & Navy Munitions Board, 122, 123, 127, 129, 132, 135, 153 Arnold, John Oliver, 11 Arnold, Thurmon, 116, 137 arsenic, 67, 68, 75 Ashhurst, Henry F., 131 Asia, x, 3, 14, 43, 77, 98, 121, 130, 140 Atkins-Kroll Co., 30 Atlantic Charter, 170 Atolia Mining Co., 15, 29, 30, 33, 43, 54, 88, 101–2, 186 Austria-Hungary, 23 automobile industry, 11, 12, 53, 57, 66, 73, 76, 202 Baker, Harry E., 32, 54 Baruch, Bernard, 28–29, 30, 35, 122, 126, 127, 128, 158 base metals. See names of individual metals; metals industry bauxite. See aluminum Bell, John Henry, 38 Bergland, Abraham, 93 Bergman, Torbern Olof, 2–3 Bessemer, Henry, 6–8 Bethlehem Steel Co., 10, 20, 58, 71, 116 Big Steel. See cartels & cartelization; steel industry blacklist, 26, 33, 40, 41 blast furnaces, 6–7, 15 blockade, 22, 26, 27, 40, 140 Blue Eagle (nra), 86, 90 Board of Economic Warfare, 141, 199 Bolivia, 129, 141, 149, 154 Borah, William, 72, 90 Boriana Mining Co., 88, 102 Boston California Mining Co., 175 Bradley, Frederick Worthen, 28 Bradley Mining Co., 157, 162, 185–86 Braeburn Alloy Steel Corp., 177 Brazil, 93, 94, 142 Brearley, Harry, 11–12 Britain. See Great Britain bulk steel. See steel INDEX 276 Index Bureau of Mines. See U.S. Bureau of Mines Burma Road, 140 Burwell, Blair, 147 business: attitudes toward war, 120; consolidation , 58; in the 1930s, 79, 82, 93–94; postwar impact on, 43; relations with govt., 77–78, 138, 150, 155, 156, 158, 162; trade associations, 41; in wartime, 25–27, 151, 199. See also metals industry; metals trade & traders; small business “Buy American” laws and legislation, 82, 132, 142, 145, 170, 173–74, 207, 210 Byrnes, James F., 128, 133–34, 152, 158, 165, 166, 167–68, 169, 199 cadmium, 154 calcium tungstate. See scheelite California, x, 15, 30, 43, 62, 149, 180 Callbreath, J. F., 84, 87, 90 Calumet & Arizona company, 58 Canada, x, 22, 25, 93, 95, 155, 168 Carboloy. See General Electric Co. carbon steel. See steel Carlisle, Henry, 182, 183 Carnegie, Andrew, 7 Carnegie Steel Co., 20 Carson Hill mine, 34, 55 cartels & cartelization: in Europe, 27, 40, 41, 116–17, 120, 158; in primary metals industries , 41, 58, 85, 90, 189; in steel industry, 16, 20–21, 53, 61. See also antitrust laws; copper industry Carter, Jimmy, 209 Cerar, George, 109–12, 114–15, 116, 177, 178 Chamber of Commerce, 159 Chile, 155 China: in British-U.S. trade talks, 142–43; exports to Germany, 139–40; exports to U.S., 40, 43, 53, 105, 121, 130, 134, 140, 148–49, 188, 209; ore deposits & production, x, 39, 68, 70, 75, 98; restrictions on exports, 206. See also Sino-Japanese war chromium: deposits, 144; govt. purchases of, 154, 156, 161; imports, 160; production & producers, 137, 154, 184; shortages, 127, 129, 133, 135; in steel alloys, 11, 19, 24, 152; strategic classification, 202; surplus issues, 162; tariff, 143 Churchill, Winston, 134, 170 Clark, Champ, 51 Clark, Edward A., 36–37, 38, 45, 55–56 Clark, John George “Jack,” 189–95 Clark, Granville, 163 Cleveland Twist Drill Co., 100 Climax Molybdenum Co., 96, 139, 157 coal industry, 202 coal mines & mining, 15, 29, 198 cobalt, 24, 112, 133, 156, 209 Coe, Ira J., 32 Cold Springs mine, 15 Colorado: lobbyists & lobbying, 49, 124; mines & mining, 43, 104, 157; ore deposits, x, 15, 62, 96, 149; production & producers, 29, 48, 85, 88...