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Atomic Silver. The Treasury announced with some pride that 14,000 tons of its silver had been used in the manufacture of the atomic bomb. Its function: to replace critically short copper in the electrical connections of the manufacturing apparatus. WPB, acting for the War Department, was the borrower. WPB will have at least six months after the war is officially ended to get all the silver back...
...with the best claim to discovery of radar's principle was the 19th Century German physicist Heinrich Hertz, who in 1887 bounced a hertzian (radio) wave off a zinc plate and caught its echo on a resonant circle of copper wire...
...More than 95% of its orders for carbon and alloy steels, copper, aluminum, artillery, tanks, guns, railroad rolling stock, telephone, radio and telegraph equipment...
Perpetual Gloom. The first target was an arms factory at Takahagi. Then, in quick succession as the battleships (with cruisers closer inshore adding their quota) headed south at better than 20 knots, came engineering works at Hitachi, a copper refinery at Shibauchi and a complex of munitions plants and steel mills at Mito...
...been charging his first important account a measly $6,000 a year over & above expenses. For the rugged job ahead, he felt the city should pay nearer what some of his other clients (Sun Valley, Union Pacific, Coca Cola, Anaconda Copper, etc.) pay. He asked for $25,000. Last week, Miami Beach said...