Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tires, was at prewar or above. Production of refrigerators and electric ranges was better than 60% of prewar. ¶ Automobile and truck production was up to 65,000 units a week (half of 1941). Steel production was up to 87.2% of capacity. The end of the number one shortage, copper, was in sight...
...trial in Reggio Emilia last week Poetess Leonarda gripped the witness-stand rail with oddly delicate hands and calmly set the prosecutor right on certain details. Her deep-set dark eyes gleamed with a wild inner pride as she concluded: "I gave the copper ladle, which I used to skim the fat off the kettles, to my country, which was so badly in need of metal during the last days...
Bright Spots. In many another industry the news was better-notably in the electrical industry. General Electric was typical. Despite lack of copper wire, which may soon clip production, G.E.'s electric fan output was close to schedule. Refrigerators were up to 93%; vacuum cleaners 57%, irons 91%. But toasters, broilers and roasters were still way down. Radio manufacturers were turning out a million radios monthly, almost the 1941 production level. (The public was already balking at buying unknown brands.) Shoe manufacturers will probably reach an alltime U.S. high this year of 550 million pairs; tires were now plentiful...
...seized Formosa after their first war on China 50 years ago, ruthlessly exploited its land and people. Formosa made Japan the world's fourth sugar-producer; it yielded enough rice to feed all the Mikado's armies as well as coal and tin, gold, silver and copper; teak and camphor (70% of U.S. mothballs) and aromatic Oolong tea. At mountain-ringed Jitsu-Getsu-Tan-Lake of the Moon and Sun-the Japanese built the nucleus of a power system that put Formosa industrially ahead of the Philippines...
From Washington came one ray of hope. The Wage Stabilization Board gave copper producers approval to use a wage increase (not to exceed 18½? an hour) as a basis for a boost in prices. Up till then the strike-bound mining companies (Kennecott, Phelps Dodge) had refused to meet demands for an 18½? boost. The present 12?-a-lb. copper ceiling price, they maintained, was too low to meet these demands. To take care of this, OPA is expected to announce a boost in the copper ceiling price to 14.32? this week-enough, it hopes, to absorb...