Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shippers are not in business for their health. Finland is fighting for its life; some observers think, for more lives than its own. Last week U. S. shippers were sending to Finland's mortal enemy, Soviet Russia, copper, wheat, oil, other materials. They indicated that shipments would continue so long as the State Department allows (see p. 69). Meanwhile, last week, the Congress of the U. S. tepidly gestured its sympathy for beleaguered Finland...
...October), $7,300,000 (November), $10,500,000 (December), showed no signs of slackening. Chief reasons for the increase: 1) Russia's former suppliers, notably England, no longer have so much to sell; 2) emergency buying, due to war. Chief item in the increase: copper, of which $6,083,854 has gone to Russia since Oct. 1. Rerouting imports away from the dangerous Atlantic, Russia now sends ships (her own, Norway's, others') to West Coast ports, where U. S. ships meet them for transshipment. Chief transshipment point: Manzanillo, a small (pop. 3,669), unhealthy Mexican harbor...
...Copper, essential to munitions, is not on the U. S. War Department's list of strategic materials because the U. S. has plenty. But Russia's buying spree has brought some U. S. exporters less innocent profits. Few weeks ago New Yorkers were selling spot rubber and pig tin (both of which the U. S. must import) for reexport through Amtorg, chief U. S. purchasing agent of the Soviet Government. War and Navy Department officials, having failed to build stockpiles of these essentials, cracked down with a "moral embargo." Said they, nipping one 500-ton sale...
...Soviet Union's pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the pioneering U. S. 100 years ago. Since 1932 the U. S. S. R. has systematically explored its northland, not only for its resources (nickel, copper, lumber, coal, reindeer, fish, fur), but in an ambitious effort eventually to open for year-round navigation the narrow passage of ice-choked water, now navigable only in summer, which fringes the tundras just south of the Arctic Pack. If that Northeast Passage were open. Russia would have an all-Russian...
...years Elmer Irey has never written a magazine article, not even with ghostly aid. He has never given a tip to Walter Winchell, never been photographed in a Manhattan nightclub or on the beach at Miami. His desk has an ash tray made of counterfeiters' copper plates, three more which used to be opium containers. And that is the nearest thing there is to a T-Man* museum...