Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway was a fish of a different scale. If Herr Hitler accomplishes his conquest of Norway, he will have an immediate economic liability on his hands. Like Denmark, Norway is an economic specialist. Her specialty is export of natural resources. She exports timber, pulp, cellulose; iron ore, pyrites, copper, nickel, molybdenum; fish, whale oil-products which Germany...
Parked behind Cruft Laboratory is an old Packard with a completely insulated copper body. With the aid of this car the Physics Department has been measuring the ionosphere 24 hours a day since...
Lawyer Wheeler sought a bigger arena, was elected to the State Legislature in 1910 as it was engaged (under old practice) in choosing the next U. S. Senator. Wheeler voted consistently for mustachioed, fearless Thomas J. Walsh. Copper legislators beat Walsh, but Burt Wheeler acquired a powerful friend. In 1912 Walsh was elected in a direct primary and in 1913 Woodrow Wilson appointed Burt Wheeler U. S. District Attorney...
...tightening of the Allied blockade which proved so grim for Scandinavia, also stirred the Balkans. German shells and bombs are made from Swedish steel, but airplanes are built of duralumin, a copper alloy of aluminum, which is extracted from bauxite. Since the war began Germany has been dependent for bauxite almost entirely on Hungary and Yugo slavia, which produce 22% of the world tonnage...
...Nazis called in their last copper coins for war use (to be replaced by zinc tokens), Adolf Hitler grimly stalked through his 1,400-ft.-long Chancellery, which he proudly completed only a year ago, designating what he would sacrifice to the "metal war chest." Chief items: the Chancellery's famed bronze doors and great candelabra...