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...more pounds of aluminum than they could use under the "stretch-out" arms program. He granted an extra 1,000,000 Ibs. for the auto industry. As a result, the industry, which had been authorized to turn out 930,000 cars in the second quarter but allowed only enough copper and aluminum for 800,000, hoped it might be able to boost its production closer to the authorized quota...
...More than 90% of the free world's nickel, and an important share of the zinc, copper, aluminum and other strategic metals for the West's defense...
Only the auto industry, which did its squawking early and was plagued by unemployment, got a bigger slice. Its steel quota, originally set for 800,000 cars, was boosted to 900,000. But there was a big catch: the industry will get only enough copper and aluminum for 800,000 cars, will have to stretch it or find substitutes. So far, substitutes have not proved too practical. General Motors, which started using coated steel radiators seven months ago, found them rusting so badly that G.M. estimated it would spend $5,000,000 replacing the defective units...
...dispute had an acute and unfavorable impact all over Latin America. When RFC policy began to hurt Bolivia, every other one-crop country in the hemisphere felt vicarious pain. Chile worried about copper, Peru about tuna, Venezuela about oil, Uruguay about wool, Cuba about sugar. It was not hard to fan nationalist resentment against the hard Yankee trader. Last week Bolivians canvassed the possibility of charging the U.S. with "economic aggression" under the agreement signed at Bogot...
...that mobilizers should let the industry turn out 1,000,000 cars a quarter until fall. By then, he thought, there would be enough defense work so that drastic auto cuts could be made. Now, said Reuther, the auto industry is being unfairly treated in its low allotments of copper, steel and other scarce metals. Said he angrily, and somewhat fatuously: "I know they are still using brass cuspidors on battleships...