Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After weeks of crying wolf, Manly Fleischmann, boss of the National Production Authority, last week trotted out his Controlled Materials Plan. Its howl seemed to be worse than its bite. Starting July 1, CMP will tightly control all steel, copper and aluminum in defense production, thus put an end to the tangle of stopgap priorities NPA has used up to now. But civilian producers will be untouched by CMP under the present plan. They will be left to scramble for the metals that are left over, but whether the metals will be the bulk-or only a small part...
Beginning May 1 and every three months from then on, said Fleischmann, defense producers will have to tell NPA in advance exactly how much steel, copper and aluminum will be needed in the next quarter. The Defense Production Administration* will make sure that the manufacturers will get what they need for defense by earmarking the metals for them. Instead of priorities, which were merely "hunting licenses" for scarce materials, manufacturers will get what Fleischmann calls "cashier's checks" to draw the metal they need from the set-aside supply. The present cuts in steel, zinc, copper, etc. for civilian...
...test his hunch, Lissmann touched the water with two electrodes connected with an oscillograph. When the two-way fish swam near, a series of regular electrial pulses showed on the oscillograph een. Then Lissmann dipped ends of a copper wire into .the aquarium. The little fish fled in terror, its radar apparently mistaking the wire for a bigger and hostile fash. It also fled from a wire carrying artificial electric pulses. But when Professor Lissmann fed its own pulses back into the water, the fish attacked the electrodes presumably taking them for a rival of its own species...
...Wilson warned, military production will start biting deeply into civilian output by year's end. Military orders, now taking 12% of the nation's steel, will approach 20% by Dec. 31. Defense consumption of copper will jump the same amount, and military orders are expected to use 25% of all U.S. aluminum...
...artists. As always with selections of such scope, a good bit was bad. But Burr Miller's marble Chrysalis showed how a sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...