Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glamor Goes. The process had already begun. World War II had deglamorized the gypsies, forced them into an activity they had successfully avoided for centuries-work. Under the National Service Act, gypsy poachers now make camouflage nets, gypsy tinkers repair copper vessels in jam factories, knife grinders shape metals, basket weavers wire eiectrical equipment for aircraft. While gypsy women (heretofore the traditional gypsy breadwinners) earn good money in war plants, their work-scorning menfolk bear arms or log wood pulp in Britain's forests...
...answer to the thesis that production tricks learned during war could not be used in peace, economists gave merely a few examples: would U.S. farmers forget the new stunts which had enabled them to raise the greatest U.S. crops in history? Would such basic industries as steel and copper junk their new skills...
...Davis brothers were its founders. Ben Davis invented a synthetic wire that could replace copper wire. George Davis figured a way to produce it at one-fifth the current price. But their most novel creation was the Trans-Pecos Chemical Com., which was not a company or a corporation but a "commonwealth...
...Service Forces officers had their orders and they carried them out in the old Army way. As the invasion moved across Algeria, they moved the poles. Trucks carried the supply (which included crossarms, insulators, copper wiring) some 400 miles over the mountains to Constantine, on to Mateur, on to Bizerte...
...Corp. and eleven individuals (four living in Britain) were indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco. The charge: violating antitrust laws by operating a worldwide cartel in borax. The antitrust division alleged that the companies controlled over 90% of the world supply (used for bombs, steel and copper alloys, etc.), most of which comes from California's Mojave Desert. The companies allegedly had kept prices skyhigh, had eliminated competition, and had hampered the war effort seriously. The antitrust action further charged that American Potash & Chemical was secretly owned by Germans, through a Netherlands dummy company, until October...