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...variety they could want, from the classic duos of Hedi Stenuf and Skippy Baxter through some highly ludicrous comedy gliding to the syncopated mastery of an auburn-haired young woman named Le Verne. By way of encouragement to the patriotic spirit of the times, the production closes with a copper-tinted ballet entitled What's On The Penny, reminding the audience that "E Pluribus Unum . . . isn't on the peso, isn't on the lira, isn't on the franc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...plants, armament factories, airports, docks, naval bases, railroad lines, freight yards, barge concentrations, shipping. It concentrated on bottlenecks. Though Germany is comparatively well supplied with aluminum, the R. A. F. went all-out for aluminum factories, to keep the Germans from using the metal as a substitute for copper, of which Germany has very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: New Chief in the Air | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Fair site on Long Island, they bored a narrow well 50 ft. deep, lined it with double steel tubing, stoppered it at the bottom with concrete and sand. The capsule, a cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic plastics, seeds; dictionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 5,000-Year Journey | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Also strained to fill orders was the copper industry. This month the British ordered 25,000 tons of brass, inquired for an additional 16,000 tons of sheets. This started another domestic buying move which assured coppermen of an all-time record month. Yet coppermen could not convince themselves it would last. Wailed C. Donald Dallas (Revere Copper & Brass), who in June had full mills: "Revere has appropriated in the last year over $1,500,000 for rounding out of plants and equipment. We cannot take the business risk of going further than this because first, if we built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Towards Full Production | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...oysters. Stronghold of the private company is Long Island, which produces 25%. Cultivated oysters bring the higher prices. The inlets of Long Island shelter them from the high wind and rough weather which often smother them with sand, feed them enough fresh water to supply the copper and other minerals that tasty oysters need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Blue Points Up | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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