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single steel complex -the five-plant United Steel Cos. Ltd., which last year produced 13½% (2,172,000tons) of all British steel - went on sale to the public last week. It was the first nationalized steel company to be offered for public sale,* thus represented the biggest step yet taken by the Conservatives to turn the industry back, as promised, to private ownership...
...defense, none is more vital than copper-and none is scarcer. Into every B-47 bomber goes a ton of copper; even a 155-mm. howitzer takes more than half a ton of the red metal and its alloys. The U.S. is the world's biggest producer (960,000tons or 40% of all output), but its crude production is lower now than it was eight years ago. It is also the biggest copper importer, but imports are dropping. Last week the Government took two big steps to boost production...
...extent of the subject and the difficulty of handling it in so short a time. The rapid growth of the industry was shown by statistics of the iron produce of this and other countries during the last few years. In 1882 the total product of iron was 20,600,000tons, of which 4,600,000 was used in the United States. The outlying districts of Lake Superior, New Jersey and Lake Chaplain furnish one half of the ores used here. Their ore is of a higher grade than that furnished by the Pennsylvania mines, lying in the centre...
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