Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commodity index had pushed above the average level prevailing in the boom years 1927-29. Building materials and iron and steel products have been in new high ground for some time. To these conspicuous markers on the highway to inflation were added non-ferrous metals (lead, zinc, copper, tin, etc.), which as a group have risen 46% since the commodity boom got underway last autumn...
Only a month ago tin was selling at 50? per lb. Last week it hit a ten-year high of 66⅓, despite the fact that the International Tin Committee threw the London market into confusion by suddenly upping second-quarter quotas from 100% to 110% of 1929 figures. Copper, which was 13? per Ib. a month ago, was boosted for the fourth time this year to 16?, while in London, where speculation in metals is now as wild as Wall Street's wildest days in stocks, copper soared above 17½?. So mad was the copper market that...
...tons, barely a two-week's supply at the present rate of consumption (more than 50,000 tons per month). Nearly one-half of all U. S. zinc is used to galvanize iron and steel and another one-fourth goes into brass, which is a copper-zinc alloy. Storage batteries account for nearly one-third of all lead, with paint a poor second. In good times building takes 10%, cable coverings 20% of U. S. lead.- And all these big lead and zinc customers are either booming or slated to boom...
...concern which publishes few figures, always makes money, has paid dividends without interruption since the Century's turn and actually has its principal mines in New Jersey. Output of the New Jersey mines at present is probably close to 100,000 tons annually. Zinc is also produced by copper miners, partly for the use of brass-making affiliates. In boom times Anaconda Copper's zinc production has been higher than 150,000 tons. Another big zinc miner is U. S. Steel, which has mines producing around 50,000 tons annually...
...three weeks thereafter they are white. Gradually they darken to yellowish grey or reddish grey in the adult. People who live in smoky cities like St. Louis (TIME, Feb. 22) have their lungs marbled with black and blue lines from particles of soot. Coal miners' lungs are black, copper miners' are blue...