Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Courier Wagner's longest tour of duty was 9½ months on Copper Tycoon Daniel Cowan Jackling's yacht. His most capricious clients are Englishmen. One hired him for a trip to the world's coldest spot. He picked Yakutsk, Siberia. From a U. S. millionaire with a Napoleonic complex came his goofiest assignment: a tour of every Napoleonic landmark in Europe. They started in Corsica, wound up six months later on Elba...
...Early in July, the French Government stepped into the copper market with an order for 50,000 tons, insisted that 29,000 tons of it be shipped immediately from U. S. stocks. This first installment was better than half of total domestic copper deliveries for any month this year. Fearing a runaway sellers' market, domestic buyers in the first three weeks of July bought over 160,000 tons, more than they had ordered in any single month since the flush days of October 1936 before President Roosevelt denounced high copper prices. This bid up the domestic price of copper...
...copper industry was thus assured of a very active second half year, which was all Wall Street needed to know. But July 1 copper inventories were still high (340,000 tons, 80,000 above the high inventoried end of 1937) and even in a good month, U. S. copper consumption does not often exceed 80,000 tons. If forward buying books July's total copper orders to 200,000 tons or better, four or even five months' additional supply at present rate of domestic consumption will be added to inventories...
...Braden Copper...
...embargo limited merely to lethal weapons, would not close U. S. ports to shipments of cotton, copper, steel, wheat to Britain and France. In the last war most of pre-1917 U. S. trade with the Allies was in raw materials. They did most of their own fabrication of guns & powder. There is always Canada, where a vast system of U. S.-owned branch factories would most likely spring up to manufacture armament and airplanes for an anti-Hitler coalition. But an embargo on raw materials would mean the obsolescence of the American merchant marine, or at least its diversion...