Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than previous estimates. But there were other reasons for the outpouring of civilian goods. U.S. industry was expanding so fast -and materials cutbacks had worked so well-that the National Production Authority was changing its mind about the extent of controls needed. NPA once thought that all steel, copper and aluminum would have to come under a controlled materials plan by summer. Now it thinks that a CMP for aluminum and for only certain classes of copper and steel is necessary, thus leaving the bulk of raw materials uncontrolled...
...first two months of 1951, automakers turned out 986,000 cars, v. 876,000 in 1950 (when the Chrysler strike cut production). Thus the steel cut-and the reductions in copper, aluminum, zinc and other metals-would still permit the industry to turn out plenty of cars. Automen and Government officials alike thought that the auto industry this year could make almost as many cars as it did in 1949, when 5,119,466 cars reached the market. Even the gloomiest of prophets placed output in 1951 at no fewer than 4,300,000 cars, more than 1948^ output...
...Meet the Press, sponsored by Revere Copper and Brass, tries to maintain a fairly even balance of opinion on its reporters' panel. "We never load the panel against the man being interviewed," explains Martha Rountree, "because people are always for the underdog. Why, with a loaded panel I could take the worst man in the country and make him a martyr...
Radcliffe is becoming better known, Dean Sherman said yesterday, after touring the eastern United States as Radcliffe ambassador. A high school group in Calumet, Michigan was the only group she met that never heard of Radcliffe. The students, she said, were daughters of Polish copper miners...
...Cambridge Traffic Commission at last is replacing the frail, chilly wooden traffic control tower in Harvard Square with a larger concrete-and-stainless-steel edifice. It will have copper trimmings; just about all it will lack is central heating...