Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first fortnight of WPB's campaign to recover copper from idle, excess and frozen stocks, 1,000,000 Ib. were turned...
Kazakhstan is the terminus of an ancient (and improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum. In the south, kok-sagyz, a rubber-yielding dandelion, is Russia's No. 2 source for rubber...
...petroleum-butadiene plants need around 300 tons of steel and 89 units of compressor horsepower per 1,000 tons of butadiene capacity; alcohol-butadiene plants need about the same amount of steel, 169 units of compressor horsepower, plus 27 tons of copper-the scarcest metal of all-v. almost no copper for oil. In the face of this ruckus, the final decision of the rubbermen is that there is no sense in building any new raw-material capacity (even if it could be built fast) as long as petroleum and alcohol between them can fill this bill...
Free music for city people was Goldman's idea when he founded his summer band concerts in 1918, wheedled $300,000 to support them, mainly from rich New Yorkers. Later the Guggenheim family (copper) adopted them as a private benefaction. But their popular success is due mainly to Bandmaster Goldman's devotion to the sound of reeds and brasses...
...real need for subsidies,is obviously just beginning-so is over-all price control. In the past, specific calls for subsidies (for high-cost copper, for the cost of shipping Southern coal by rail instead of by water, etc.) have been few and confined to extraordinary emergencies. From now on, the extraordinary emergencies are bound to become more & more the ordinary casualties of a titanic war effort...