Word: coppered
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...present output of rubber is negligible and it takes at least seven years for a rubber plantation to become commercially workable. Thus, several years and many things must happen before South America can hope to find a sufficient market in the U. S. During those years, Chilean copper must compete in the markets of the world with U. S. copper, Argentine wheat with U. S. wheat, Latin American oil with U. S. oil. If Hitler commands Europe, South America must turn to him for markets. His propagandists are already pointing this...
...Copper, fresh from a June sales spree 450% ahead of March, sat on an export inventory which had backed up when France was put out of the war. By last week, it was clear that June's sales would not look so impressive when averaged with a couple of "correctional" months...
...Strategic materials to burn. The Allies controlled about one-quarter of the world's copper, more than half its rubber, about 40% of its tin, one-third its zinc, practically all its nickel...
Shortly after Russia invaded Finland last November, the U. S. was shocked to find that Russian purchases in the U. S. (copper, aluminum, machinery) were soaring. So the State Department slapped a moral embargo against the export of strategic goods to Russia. And in February, Secretary Morgenthau persuaded U. S. machine tool makers (who were doing a big business with Moscow) to give their fellow citizens priority. U. S. sales to the U. S. S. R. plummeted from $11,313,000 (January...
...past 15 years, Canada has become the producer of 88% of the world's nickel, 50% of its asbestos, 50% of its platinum, 12% of its copper...