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Show U. S. power industry held readj for industrial mobilization. : : : American Industry Solves Problem American industry, has defeated Soviet Russia's attempt to hamper our steel-making by cutting off supplies of maganese needed for alloys. The importance of manganese man-ganese is shown by the fact that about 13 pounds of the metal were used for each ton of steel made during 1949. During the first four months of 1949, Russia supplied about 15 of our maganese imports, but cut this total down to 1 in the corresponding cor-responding four months of 1950. However, American businessmen managed to increase purchases in Africa and in India, so that total imports of the metal increased 24. |