Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Berkeley Bunker came up with some news that really put B.M. into the big time. He said he had heard "reliably" that huge Anaconda Copper Co. was buying B.M. "lock, stock and barrel" for $75,000,000, that its former owners were getting $1,000,000 from Defense Plants Corp. on the deal, although the Government's bill for building the plant would now run over $100,000,000 rather than $70,000,000. Even so, said Senator Bunker darkly, "the Government can consider itself lucky to get out of this thing...
...Utah and Idaho, WMC recently worked out a voluntary "freezing" arrangement with employers and unions: henceforth no copper, lead or zinc miner can leave his job without permission; to make the agreement stick, the War Labor Board raised wages $1 a day - 25% instead of the 15% formula. Said one mine operator: "This is a perfect case of locking the barn door after the horse is stolen." One-fifth of the miners are already gone...
...thousand-foot cliffs of the Final Mountains rising out of barren foothills of Superior, Ariz, looked good to crag-browed Mannheim Kalaf in 1916. They reminded him of his native Syria. He settled down there and went to work in the copper mine. He liked his new home and work. But something was missing. No hajjel. Arizona, fine state though it is, had no hajjeL
...warrants for specific quantities of scarce materials each month and the sum total of all the warrants cannot total more than the scarce materials the Production Requirements Committee allocates to each service. Each month these warrants would be returned to WPB and, if they added up to more steel, copper, etc. than the Requirements Committee had allocated, WPB would order the guilty services to cut their production schedules. WPB will thus be a central score keeper without trying to be the central scheduler of all production...
Frustrated freight is the Washington nickname for goods that were manufactured, paid for, consigned and ready for shipment to all kinds of "friendly" governments and nationals-but never left the U.S. It consists of shells, motors, machines, pipe, steel bars, copper wire etc. ordered by the whole roster of European nations now Axis-occupied, not to mention China and all the Good Neighbor Republics. The goods got to some port of embarkation and frustration began-usually no ships...