Permanente Metals
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Permanente Metals Company (PMC) managed the Richmond Shipyards, owned by Henry J. Kaiser. These four of the Kaiser Shipyards were known for the construction of Liberty ships.
The company was also a major producer of magnesium during World War II. To make use of its major product, powdered magnesium, PMC also developed and supplied an incendiary bomb mixture of magnesium powder, asphalt, gasoline and others components (known as 'goop', with similar characteristics to napalm); 17,000 tons of 'goop'-filled bombs were used in World War II (approximately 8% of the total tonnage of incendiaries that were dropped during that conflict).[1]
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- Wilson, Mark R.. "Making "Goop" Out of Lemons: The Permanente Metals Corporation, Incendiary Bombs, and the Costs of Industrial Overexpansion during World War II" (pdf). Rutgers University. http://economics.rutgers.edu/dmdocuments/MarkWilson.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
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