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...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
Last week the Daily Post, along with the rest of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.'s big newspaper chain, wound up a booming campaign for Burt Wheeler's renomination in Montana's Democratic primary. But it was not enough. Burt Wheeler was soundly beaten (49,401 to 43,729). His defeat, like his conversion to the "copper collar," was the measure of the disrepute into which fractious Burt Wheeler had fallen...
Other metals were already up. Platinum prices doubled. Zinc went up 1¼? to 9½? a pound. Copper, tied in with OPA subsidies, waited on Washington developments. But the best guess was that low-cost copper producers would continue to sell at the OPA ceiling of 14⅜? a pound. High-cost producers would probably boost their price...
...tires, was at prewar or above. Production of refrigerators and electric ranges was better than 60% of prewar. ¶ Automobile and truck production was up to 65,000 units a week (half of 1941). Steel production was up to 87.2% of capacity. The end of the number one shortage, copper, was in sight...
Bright Spots. In many another industry the news was better-notably in the electrical industry. General Electric was typical. Despite lack of copper wire, which may soon clip production, G.E.'s electric fan output was close to schedule. Refrigerators were up to 93%; vacuum cleaners 57%, irons 91%. But toasters, broilers and roasters were still way down. Radio manufacturers were turning out a million radios monthly, almost the 1941 production level. (The public was already balking at buying unknown brands.) Shoe manufacturers will probably reach an alltime U.S. high this year of 550 million pairs; tires were now plentiful...