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...case of coffee was merely last week's example of the conflict in policy among the Government's various arms. Many another import commodity-copper, rubber, tin. tungsten-has felt the conflict too. New Dealers figured there was only one ultimate solution: a Government import monopoly, next step toward total economic...
Their $600,000.000 industry had been picked by OPM as one of the first real victims of priorities among consumer industries (see p. 18). They were picked because they use a lot of aluminum (6 sq. ft. of sheet per set), as well as zinc, copper, lead, other critical materials. When OPM made up its priorities list, radios were sandwiched "between hair tonic and toothpaste," with a B-7 rating. OPM figured that since U.S. citizens already bend an ear to 53,000,000 receiving sets, more would be a luxury...
...only concepts which are as staggering as these vastnesses are China's material lacks. Her huge Army has become expert despite a most appalling want of arms and ammunition. China's total copper output is now less than 3,000 tons a year. She puts out less than 100,000 tons of finished steel,† In a single ten-day bombardment on a single ten-mile front in World War I, at Passchendaele, 88,000 tons of copper and steel were flung around...
Died. Arthur Curtiss James, 74, towering, bearded builder of one of the world's great railroad empires; in Manhattan. Grandson of one of the five original partners in Phelps, Dodge (copper), he inherited 25 million dollars in 1907, added to it a reputed 50 million by shrewd investments, became the biggest individual owner of railroad stock in the country. With the gradual acquisition of large blocks of stock in Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific, he came into a control that enabled him to join the roads in a vast trunk system sprawling from...
...other ways, war's pinch tightened enough last week to raise more than aluminum bruises on the U.S. economic body. To the list of metals already under mandatory Government control (aluminum, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...