Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent months this staff has documented for our Business section some of the most-important stories TIME has carried. They took the lead in highlighting the critical scrap shortage in steel and the critical manpower shortage in copper. They were first to detail the dramatic expansion of American aviation all over the world and the imminence of hourly flights from New York to London. They were among the first to point up the need of meat rationing and coffee rationing and the foolishness of sugar rationing; the end of the aluminum shortage, the approach of the lumber shortage...
When the Red Cross asked for blood, 700 convicts volunteered, 144 already have donated. Men in the prison tailor shop cut material for Red Cross sewing units. Soon the convicts will begin to reclaim rubber-covered copper wire salvaged and brought back from Pearl Harbor. In a million-dollar, convict-built factory, 1,000 skiff-type commando assault boats will be made if San Quentin's bid is accepted...
Cause of the hurried trip was the flat refusal of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 1 at Butte, Mont, to allow Negro workers down the shafts of Anaconda Copper. This was in grim defiance of C.I.O.'s strong pro-Negro policies. It was also in defiance of the U.S. Army, and of an Administration patently striving to promote amicable Negro-white relations among the labor forces of this country...
...Indium, mixed with copper-base brazing materials in varying quantities, makes possible a wide range of melting points...
...aviation and diesel engines, copper-lead and cadmium bearings with indium added are proving extra strong and highly resistant to acid corrosion of lubricating...