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1. High-grade iron ore deposits in Utah.
2. The patriotism of American business.
3. Great deposits of copper in Alaska.
4. The pool of unemployed skilled labor.
5. The profit motive.
86. The only one of the following for which there seems little probability of rationing in 1942 is:
1. Silk stockings.
2. Woolens.
3. Porcelain enamelware.
4. Canned foods.
5. Sugar.
87. Most immediately effective way for Americans to get additional steel is to:
1. Air-condition blast furnaces.
2. Rush to completion new steel plants already under construction.
3. Use purer iron ore just found in Montana.
4. Force all steel mills to adopt the electrolytic process.
5. Buy the full capacity of Brazil's new furnaces.
88. But even then there could be a serious threat to capacity steel production in the shortage of :
1. Coke.
2. Scrap iron.
3. Trained labor.
4. Molybdenum.
5. Power.
89. On the Far East, now farther away than ever, the U. S. depended for rubber and hemp, and all but one of these:
1. Mica.
2. Tungsten.
3. Tin.
4. Chrome.
5. Aluminum.
90. Last December Vultee Aircraft completed the biggest merger in U. S. aviation history by swallowing Consolidated Aircraft, and named as new Chairman of its Board:
1. Major Reuben Fleet.
2. Republic Steel's Tom Girdler.
3. Wall Street's Victor Emmanuel.
4. Pan American's Juan Trippe.
5. Plane-Builder Glenn Martin.
91. Highest in history was the U. S. national income in 1941, which totaled:
1. $74,000,000.
2. $86,000,000.
3. $92,000,000.
4. $99,000,000.
5. $103,000,000.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
92. Mass collection and storage of blood by the Red Cross became practicable when doctors found:
1. Red blood could be heated and dried for transfusion.
2. Irradiated, blood of any type is suitable for any transfusion.
3. Plasma could be dried and stored for five years.
4. Blood kept at body temperature doesn't spoil.
5. Oxygen under pressure preserves red corpuscles.
93. Lignin, a waste product in paper making, is now known to be useful in all but one of the following ways:
1. Added to plastics it may double the supply.
2. As vanillin.
3. As a road binder.
4. As a good ersatz maple sugar.
5. Used as an adulterant, it can greatly increase our synthetic rubber output.
94. There would have been many more dead at Pearl Harbor had it not been for a newly invented cigar-shaped device which:
1. Finds metal in the body.
2. Plugs bleeding arteries.
3. Locates traveling torpedoes before they come to the surface.
4. Is the best individual air raid shelter yet.
5. Doubles ack-ack accuracy.
95. Because it can now be produced from sea water and weighs only two-thirds of what aluminum does, more lightweight materials probably will be made of:
1. Zinc.
2. Magnesium.
3. Duralumin.
4. Tungsten.
5. Antimony.
96. And aluminum may itself become more plentiful now that a new process extracts it from:
1. Sand.
2. Quartz.
3. Common clay.