Word: coppered
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...entire OPM v. OPACS fight over how-much and in-what-way the production of automobiles should be cut down became futile this week when the shortage of copper became so acute that there would be none left for non-defense consumption...
...Wrote the head of Sol-Ray Engineering Co. (sun-heated water systems) from Day tona Beach, Fla., begging for copper: "Is our business going to be ruined along with the investment? If so, what is a man of 50 with a family going to do. . .?" This week, copper went under full priorities...
...year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women-all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protégées: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan...
...pound. Then OPACS's Leon Henderson clamped down with a request to suspend trading, a tentative price ceiling of $3.04 (the Monday level). To Manhattan's Commodity Exchange (which suspended silk trading and deliveries this week) this meant loss of its last important item of trade. Copper and rubber trading had been suspended previously and hide trading is limited by a price ceiling...
...Copper is available in Japan in amounts barely sufficient for peacetime needs. Last year Japan imported 130,356 tons of refined copper and scrap from the U.S., other large supplies from Latin America (now partly cut off by U.S. pre-emptive buying programs below the border). Other basic materials of which Japan is short include coal (barely enough for peacetime requirements), zinc (50% of peacetime