Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a Massachusetts Quaker family 300 years old came Burt Wheeler, on Feb. 27, 1882. From the start he was on the scramble. Out of Michigan Law School in 1905, he went west, there heard the fabulous tales of attorneys' fees in Butte, Mont., where F. Augustus Heinze, copper baron, and Amalgamated Copper Co. (the "Standard Oil crowd") were at war for control of "the richest hill on earth." But by the time young Wheeler settled in Butte the fight was over and the fees had fled. He became a law clerk, then hung out his own shingle...
...clothe 1,500,000 men. Boots were lacking, to say nothing of bayonets. The country had tankage capacity for only three months' normal consumption of oil. And the tanks were not more than two-thirds full. Weary from two wars, Italy had insufficient reserves of cotton, scrap iron, copper. Above all, there was no will to war among the people...
Leather is scarce and so is cotton. The orange crop was normal last year and Spain had an export surplus, but olives and olive oil, the country's big agricultural exports, were below normal. Exports were at the expense of hungry Spaniards. The output of mineral resources (iron, copper, mercury, potash), in spite of British and Nazi efforts, was about 75% of pre-war normal...
...Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were still detained at Hong Kong, when in came the Vladimir Mayakovsky, also under British escort. She had 4,000 tons of U. S. copper and a lot of molybdenite aboard, cleared from Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast and San Pedro, Calif. She, too, was bound for Vladivostok. Her cargo, too, was suspect as contraband for Germany...
...their allies, the French, who were taking them to a port in Indo-China for further scrutiny. Report was that the officers & crew of the Selenga, refusing to submit, were placed under arrest. It seemed a cinch that neither Russia nor Germany would soon receive those particular tons of copper, tin, antimony, wolframite, molybdenite...