Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aluminum shortage was officially buried last week, on the anniversary of the first big aluminum scare. Funeral orator was WPB's Bill Batt, who said that while the U.S. was still hard-pressed for steel, copper, nickel, manganese and many other metals, it is now "comfortably fixed" on aluminum. Another WPB man followed through with word that: "We are delivering aluminum to the planemakers now that will not be flown away in a plane until late fall...
After the war, however, Alcoa will face increased competition-aluminum v. steel, v. copper, v. magnesium v. plastics. Alcoa will have to find new markets for enough aluminum to rebuild all the railroad passenger cars now in the U.S. every four months, or every year to put a 30-piece set of cooking utensils in 34,000,000 U.S. homes, with enough left over for 5,000,000 miles of aluminum electric transmission cable. It will have to market more tons of metal than all the U.S. copper companies combined have ever sold in a peacetime year. At present prices...
...They are self-supervising. Damage to the sheath lets gas escape; and this warning drop in pressure sends crews to repair the cable before the vital copper conductors are hurt...
...electrical cable filled with gas is now carrying high-voltage current for seven miles from a Detroit Edison Co. power plant to nearby arms factories. Built by General Cable Corp., it is the longest gas-filled cable in the world: a steel pipe through which run three one-inch copper ropes, separately insulated and packed in nitrogen gas at a pressure of 200 lb. per sq. in. There are a few other such cables, the first of which was installed in the U.S. by General Electric for the Yonkers (N.Y.) Electric Light & Power Co. as a refinement on oil-filled...