Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customary demands: 1) concentration on agriculture for the benefit of a hungry-Reich at the expense of industrial development; 2) preferential rights to Germany on all surpluses. Incidental demands included a 20% increase in the official exchange value of the reichmark in terms of dinars, added quotas of corn, copper and lead to replace the wheat Yugoslavia cannot deliver because of a disastrous harvest, and 600,000 tons of iron ore a year to bring the German supply up to the pre-air-raid level. Promised reward: an economic role in the New Order. The Yugoslav Government finally signed...
...fantastic prices for war materials. They had cornered the Mexican mercury market and bought considerable stocks of molybdenum by offering $4.74 against the U. S. price of $4.43 for mercury, $3.55 against $2.75 for molybdenum. They offered 5 to 6% more than U. S. prices for Mexican antimony, copper, fluorspar, tungsten. Another Mexican motive was thought to be a covering move against possible U. S. embargo pressure: Mexico could tell the U. S. she would gladly embargo oil, but could not block operations of Japanese-controlled firms actually operating in Mexico...
...enough lead, zinc, and magnesium. That was all. Two-thirds of her iron ore and 85% of her copper had to be imported. To feed her highly-developed smelters at Leipzig, Breslau, etc., she had little or no bauxite (aluminum ore), antimony, tin or the critical ferro-alloy metals: molybdenum, tungsten, chrome, nickel. The map shows how conquest enlarged her resources. Fine lines show her post-Versailles boundaries, the heavy line her holdings at the end of year I of World...
...restricted flow of goods in spite of the British blockade. Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway are leaks that have been plugged. Only Portugal, Spain, the Balkans and Russia remain, most of them strictly rationed by the blockade and with poor transportation systems for supplying him. Some copper, tin, a few other supplies can reach Germany by way of Vladivostok, but not in quantity. Germany cannot beat the blockade. She can only try to beat the blockader...
...Foreigners owned 3 to 4% of the total stock outstanding in all domestic corporations. Of the 200 corporations surveyed, 17 paid over 10% of their dividends to persons living outside the U. S. Examples: Shell Union Oil, 80%; Singer Manufacturing, 18.8%; Anaconda Copper, 17.5%; Western Union...