Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hunters are 350 U.S. geologists. They have bagged millions of tons of war-critical ores. WPB has just scratched aluminum and zinc off the list of U.S. shortages. Copper may soon follow suit. The Government now knows of big U.S. deposits of manganese, vanadium, tantalum and chromite-not one of which was produced in quantity in the U.S. before the war. Already the nation can produce most of its own chromite and tantalum (crucially important in a secret war job). The hunters have also discovered 3,000,000 tons of high-grade bauxite (for aluminum), new sources of tungsten, magnesium...
...Mutt & Jeff pair: lean, untidy Survey Director William Embry Wrather, who looks like a country schoolteacher, and chubby, loud-tied Chief Geologist Gerald Francis Loughlin. Since 1938 the Survey has sent forth hundreds of prospecting parties to promising fields from Alaska to Latin America. They have hunted for copper in Vermont, bauxite in Alabama, zinc in Wisconsin, oil in Alaska. In the past year alone the geologists have made more than 700 field investigations...
...Copper Camp...
...would like to be at your desk when the returns come in from the irate citizens of Butte, Mont. Your book review of Copper Camp (TIME, Oct. 4) must have stirred up the animals, "the wolves of copper...
...irate Reader Beckstrom turn his guns on the authors of Copper Camp, latest of the WPA guidebooks, which TIME quoted...