Die Frau und die Arbeit

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Identifikator:: 1043707638

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-80116

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Hassell, Ulrich von http://d-nb.info/gnd/118708988

Title:: Die Einrichtungen der preußischen Landkreise auf dem Gebiete der Kriegswirtschaft

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verlag der Beiträge zur Kriegswirtschaft Reimar Hobbing (Sonder-Konto)

Year of publication:: 1918

Scope:: 49 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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INTRODUCTION. 7 hand, Russia, our strongest rival in oil production, must suffer more complete and longer continued interruption of exports, which should tend to enlarge the market for our oil. The supply of cheap foreign barytes has prevented the development of many good deposits of that mineral, but with the consumers on lhe Atlantic seaboard already looking for domestic supplies, some of the south ern mines should be reopened to supplement the output of those already in operation. The closure of the European market leaves but one buyer for the radium ores of Colorado and Utah, which is decidedly to the disadvantage of the miner. Had the legislation introduced in Congress been promptly enacted the United States Government would probably have been buying these ores at this time. While the United States leads in coal mines, the six European nations now at war happen to be the six next largest coal mining countries, producing to gether over half the world’s coal. Interference with both the mining and the commerce of these nations must necessarily increase the demand for our coal, at least in the neutral countries of the world. It is not generally known, how ever, to what an extent we have been depending upon Europe, principally Ger many, for many of the chemical products derivable from coal, and which we have been permitting to go to waste, in the most reckless manner. Coal tar obtained in the manufacture of coal gas and of coke (in retort ovens) is capa ble of producing hundreds of chemical products, but the chemical industries dependent upon coal tar as a raw material have had little development in the United States. Our imports of coal-tar products in 1913 were valued at $11,000,000 at initiating points and when they reached the ultimate consumer probably cost double that amount. If the present war continues any length of time the American consumer will have to do without aniline colors and dyes, certain drugs, and numerous other coal-tar products, or the American manufacturers will undertake to supply these essential commodities, which have hitherto car ried the label “ Made in Germany.” Several of the mineral products mentioned by Secretary Lane as those upon which American industries depend, although imported in large part, have been discussed more fully in later statements given to the public press by the Geological Survey. Press bulletins have been published on such subjects as potash, manganese, tin, flint peb bles, arsenic, antimony, and barytes, and in other bulletins the effect of the war on exports of copper, zinc, and radium has been discussed. Within the last few weeks there has been a lively demand for information regarding possible sources of mineral products, both crude and manufactured. A considerable volume of correspondence on this subject has come to the Geological Survey, and with it the opportunity to act as an agent in bringing consumer and producer into touch with each other. Equally important is the function of pointing out possible sources of minerals which hitherto have been imported from European countries, as well as indicating what sup plies are available to meet the new demands for exports. It seems advisable to bring together the information already given to the press and to supplement it with other data now at hand, with the purpose of furnishing to the public in convenient form a sum mary of the mineral resources available for utilization under the pressure of present conditions. The preparation of the press bulle-

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