Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apparently it did because since then Alaska has ex ported more than $1,250,000,000 in fish, furs, gold and other metals. And Alaska's 70,000 inhabitants (half of them Indians) have not yet scratched its natural resources, which include water power, lumber, oil, iron, zinc, copper, chromite, antimony, nickel, platinum, tungsten. But Johnson also got his money's worth in natural defense, for today Alaska is one of the U. S.'s two most important outposts against invasion from the Pacific (the other: Hawaii). Today Army and Navy are rushing to spend more than...
...middle of a tabby life, to sail with Columbus on his third voyage, as guardian of the Spanish King's interests in the New World. On the voyage his mind fumbles toward the invention of the sextant, the use of Indian hammocks at sea, of pumps for bilge, copper sheathing against marine borers. He is fascinated -and so is the reader-by every detail of medieval navigation, by Columbus (half inspired zany, fur-collared "thespian"), by the cloudy jumble of zombie myth and fetal science which throng Columbus' mind...
...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...
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...