Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carelessness, stupidity and waste had bungled the management of the U.S. stock of critical metals. For instance, although the U.S. has ten times as much copper as Germany, U.S. war production lags miserably for lack...
What makes mild Mr. Anderson maddest is to compare the U.S. use of raw materials with Germany's. The U.S. copper supply this year is ten times what Germany has been winning the war with, he points out; yet the U.S. war plant is now slowing down for "lack" of copper! Germany is using one-quarter as much copper ammunition, though both nations are producing about the same quantity of shells...
...Germany porcelain tubes replace copper and brass tubing in water, air, fuel and chemical containers; alloy steel supplants copper, bronze and brass in armatures, turbine blades, and food, soap, chemical and synthetic gasoline factories...
...Monel-metal urinals (70% nickel, 30% copper), chrome-plated brass towel hangers, aluminum lockers, 13,000 lb. of brass name plates are among the Navy's specifications for a seaworthy cruiser...
...rendezvous with history. Heat-drugged, half-nude Indians still slept in the shade on sun-baked pavements or sprawled dozing on the grassy lawns of Government buildings and homes of pukka sahibs. From miles away bright British flags could be seen snapping in the north wind above the copper dome of the viceregal palace, as gayly and unconcernedly as if the British Government were not facing the most serious threat to its power since the Mutiny...