Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telegrams he had received on farm labor shortages (see p. 22), suggesting that it might be wise for the Army to furlough some of its 35 -to -45 year-olds for work in factory and field. Forthwith, the Army began to furlough 4,000 miners to go back to copper, lead and zinc fields...
...break with the Axis was not something that President Rios could lightly undertake. Chilean isolationists feel that Chile has enough trouble at home without risking invasion along 2,800 miles of coast. Chile's great riches, nitrates and copper, (mostly owned by U.S. companies) return to Chile only wages and taxes. Chile's agricultural land is sparse and dominated by the landed gentry on their great fundos. The nation's industrial workers average less than $200 yearly, her agricultural workers less than $100. Santiago's dank slums and pasty-faced poor are as prominent a feature...
...hemisphere: Chile has lost most of its foreign trade, except that with the U.S. (before the war some 84% of Chile's exports went elsewhere). Chileans have always been tempted to think of the U.S. chiefly as the destination of the major profits from Chilean nitrate and copper. But Good Neighborliness in Washington now seems to be carrying conviction in Santiago. Countless Chilean voices were urging union with the hemispheric front...
Hard on the heels of the War Labor Board's decision to pay copper miners $1 per day higher wages (TIME, Oct. 26), OPA and WPB last week moved to reconsider the return which copper companies can expect to get for their metal in view of higher labor costs...
Nevertheless, both OPA and WPB were careful to package their sense-making proposal in elaborate wrappings. In no circumstance would there be a retreat from an official 12? price for copper, which many companies contended from the beginning was too low to bring out total production...