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Aluminum Now Metal
Of All Trades
Aluminum -- a household staple - once was a status syn* bol of royalty. France s Crown Prince Imperial, infant son of Napoleon III, shook an engraved aluminum baby rattle. The Emperor himself sipped soup from an aluminum spoon at state banquets, and presented an alumi num watch chain to the visiting King of Siam. ^In those days, the metal was 'a precious curiosity called “silvef* from clay” that sold for the equivalent of $545 a pound, the National Geographic Society says.
Everybody now uses aluminum. In 1966, United States producers shipped nine billion pounds — a record volume -- at an average price of just 25 cents a pound. Aluminum goes into everything from airplanes to beer kegs, from skyscraper walls to kitchen foil, from sea-going ships to automobile radiators, from bridges to bottle caps. A Georgia entrepreneur set up an aluminum supermarket. Among his first customers was a woman wanting short aluminum palings to build a fence to enclose her pet chihuahua.
Some African tribesmen erect their homes from corrugated iron; a man’s status is determined by the size of his house. Since women carry the metal sheets, sales of aluminum boomed when the men found their wives could carry bigger pieces of light aluminum than galvanized iron. Though aluminum is the third
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