Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fared better, although among them, too, the biggest export gains were made by the groups needing foreign relief least. Far & away the No. 1 material exporter was the scrap, pig iron and other semi-finished steel groups, whose shipments were up 145% to $78,494,000. Other star performers - copper, up 122% to $33,264,000; chemicals, up 145% to $21,257,000; aluminum materials, up 184% to $5,836,000 - were all in fair shape domestically anyway. Disappointing was the increase in coal exports (up 35% to $10,725,000); the big Canadian and Latin American markets for British...
...open the road to war. These spearheads, to be followed by heavier forces from the growing Nazi troop-pool in the Oslo district, drove to reach their comrades at Trondheim before the floundering Allies should surround that town and close the roads to reinforcements. One struck north to the copper town of Röros at a speed which excited correspondents called "lightning"-actually about 50 miles in one day, which is excellent for tanks and lorries moving through mountain country if the retreating defenders are blowing out bridges, touching off landslides. When the Österdal spearhead reached...
...Anaconda Copper has sold its share of 250,000 tons of copper sent to France alone since World War II began, is still exporting...
...Bureau of Mines held up pieces of steel and brass, dropped them on the floor. They clanged. Mr. Dean then dropped a piece of another metal. There was a faint thump. This "noiseless" metal, as strong and elastic as mild steel, is a heat-treated alloy of copper and manganese. "This," said Metallurgist Dean, "opens up many new possibilities-chatterless spring suspensions, noiseless gears, a muffler for a whole host of bothersome industrial sounds...
Lately the Pink Reporter had heckled Governor Roy Ayers, who took office four years ago with the blessing of Montana's powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Co. A mild-mannered Lewistown lawyer and Democrat, Governor Ayers enjoys a drink as much...