Word: coppered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Goods: The use of copper and brass in making 300 civilian products was sharply restricted. After March 1, copper may not be used to make, among other things, pots & pans, jewelry, automobile trimmings, furniture, and household electrical equipment. Civilian use of cobalt-valuable as a steel alloy for cutting tools-was cut by two-thirds. Beginning Feb. 1, every purchase of more than 25 lbs. will need Government approval. The cobalt pinch will be felt in radios, television sets, refrigerators and all enamelware household appliances; it is likely to knock out color TV for the duration...
Nevertheless, until output was stepped up, the U.S. faced grave shortages in such metals as aluminum, copper, nickel, cobalt, etc., whose production was not yet up to World War II's level...
...control auto prices, Valentine would have had to control prices and wages all down the line-in fact, put the lid on a major segment of the entire U.S. economy. The auto industry consumes 20% of the nation's steel, and huge quantities of rubber, paint, fabrics, copper and almost every other major raw material...
...Warned that it would soon be forced to order a cut in the nonmilitary use of tin by "something less than 30%" and that it might ban copper and cobalt for nonessential products where other metals can be substituted...
...Ordered manufacturers to channel all their copper and brass scrap into "normal trade sources," i.e., not into grey market conversion deals...