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other new magnesium alloys with copper, tin, and 

 aluminum, as well as zinc, and reeling off their merits 

 like a country auctioneer warming up over a tractor 

 and all its appliances. 



"And don't you ever forget," Dr. Beutel concluded, 

 "that at twenty cents a pound magnesium, the lightest 

 of all metals, is cheaper on a volume basis than either 

 copper or aluminum." 



At Listerhill, R. S. Reynolds luckily swooped in on 

 his private plane between his winter home in Miami 

 and the Reynolds Metals Company's office in Louisville. 

 He was once dubbed "Aladdin of Aluminum" allitera- 

 tive, but inept, for it smacks of magic. Though he has 

 pulled some pretty rabbits out of the hat, he is as much 

 of a sleight-of-hand artist as the village blacksmith. 



During the evening we spent at the Company's snug 

 guest house on the shores of Wilson Lake with Basil 

 Horsfield, vice-president in charge of aluminum pro- 

 duction, and half a dozen others of the staff, Reynolds 

 impressed me time and again as an American industrial 

 edition of the idolized Little Corporal of France. Physi- 

 cally he is like Napoleon, a big-little man, stocky, bald- 

 ish, teeming with vigor and confidence. He has other 

 Napoleonic traits. He has fought many a campaign all 

 over the map of industry, and his victories have been 

 won by the swift-moving tactics of surprise attack. His 

 associates, like the Old Guard of France, will follow 

 their spirited leader into the very jaws of Hell. As every 



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