Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jalopy campaign, in New York and New Jersey asked auto dealers and junkmen to turn in at least 420,000 old autos by year's end (normal: less than 100,000). Since each jalopy yields 1,500 lb. of steel scrap, 30 lb. of lead, 25 lb. of copper and 22 lb. of zinc, the junk-auto scheme could mean a fat addition to U.S. metal supplies...
...moon reached its full eclipse, appearing as a dull copper ball, at 11:01 o'clock and remained unchanged until 12:35 when the earth's shadow began to recede. Since the dimout regulations removed most of the glare from the skies and only scattered clouds appeared, the course of the phenomenon was clearly visible in all its stages...
Thus wages are the simplest and almost the only practicable way of solving the copper crisis now. If copper wages are raised much OPA will have to do some new figuring on copper prices, for at 12? a Ib. the big companies are already producing some 30% of their copper at a loss (on the OPA theory that they can afford to average the loss out against their lower cost output). Even a 10?-an-hour raise would cost $7,000,000 a year-small pickings compared with the $250,000,000 the Government is paying for domestic copper...
...long last is ready to put the profit motive to work to get the big copper companies to increase their output of this bottleneck metal...
When OPA and Metals Reserve Co. offered a 5? premium over and above the 12? ceiling for increased copper production last winter they deliberately set the base quota on which no premium will be paid so high that they not only froze out the big three (Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, which produce 85% of U.S. copper) but also froze out all but one of the other 15 companies which with the big three produce 98½% of U.S. total...