Word: 000tons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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