Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...push, pending a settlement of their competitive (and labor) problems. Meanwhile the release of some of the two companies' duplicating equipment could advance the war effort. If all their parallel wires were torn down, for example, it might release as much as 10,000 tons of badly needed copper...
...potato for a year and a half. I talked to a man in a defense plant getting $380 to $420 per month. His job of inspecting kept him busy only four or five hours a day. Any attempt to do other work brought rebuke.... At another plant No. 8 copper wire was being thrown away in pieces 2 to 18 inches long. . . . One of our men talked to his uncle in an aircraft factory...
...company secret. But one thing is certain: New Jersey Zinc's plants in its home State, Pennsylvania, and the West are all-out for war. Biggest wartime zinc need is for millions of shell cases, which the U.S. specifies must be 30% high-grade zinc, 70% copper. Then comes a string of zinc alloy castings for trucks and aircraft (fuel pumps, carburetors, door handles, etc.), die-cast gun sights, shell fuses and fire pumps, galvanized ship plates, sanitary equipment and plain tin roofs. Atop this are zinc oxide for paint, tires and medical supplies, "spiegeleisen" (mirror iron) for steel...
Warstuffs. Naturally and by conquest, Japan now finds herself in possession of just about all the raw materials she needs for war. Copper is the only apparent shortage, and she has plenty of aluminum to substitute. She has crude oil to spare and soon will have refineries at work. She has enough rubber to sell some to Russia'. She has acquired iron in Kcjrea, Indo-China, Malaya and the Philippines-enough for an annual steel production of something less than 8,000,000 tons; coal in Korea and China; lead and zinc in Burma; bauxite in Malaya...
...teeth of the External Security Law, which the President had signed three weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 18) for the control of enemy alien activity, were immediately bared. The regions of Chile's vital raw materials-copper, nitrate, coal-and her key ports and cities were proclaimed emergency zones. The interests of the Axis Governments were taken over by Spain. Steps were taken to arrange Axis diplomats' departure through Argentina...