Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret Bachite coating process may make cheap black plate iron important to National Defense as an abundant and rust-resistant substitute for ordinary uses of: 1. Rubber. 2. Aluminum. 3. Copper. 4. Tin. 5. Lead...
...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...
...their business. But lumber and pulp men were not losing much sleep last week. Already oversold, they figured on remaining oversold as long as Scandinavian exports are cut off. Also unruffled were coppermen. Their exports to Japan last year were $27,567,000, 15% of output; but the copper market is even tighter than the lumber market, doling out new supplies to defense-favored customers only. Another key Japanese supplier is the machine-tool industry, which has made sales of about $20,000,000 a year to Japan ever since German industry became too preoccupied with its own rearmament...
...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...
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...