Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II is a boon to the bug armies. The minerals with which man has fought bugs for years-arsenic, copper, lead-are now needed for his war on his own kind. Carbon tetrachloride, ethylene dichloride and chloropicrin are withheld from insecticide manufacturers for the benefit of war materials. The phosphorus paste that used to kill cockroaches now goes into incendiary bombs. A group of six articles on the war against insects, in the current issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, makes these facts plain...
...enforce such orders, WPB's Compliance Section and Requisitioning Branch got tougher too. Compliance accused Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners) of misusing some 350,000 lb. of secondary aluminum, forbade it to touch any aluminum for three months. Requisitioning seized 78,000 lb. of copper sheet from a bathroom-supply dealer named Katz, who had refused to sell it to Metals Reserve. Washington was getting too small for Requisitioning's expanding Ogpu; its boss, Ernie Tupper, went to Manhattan, looked at space in the Empire State Building...
METALS Silver, despite its artificial price, has become so useful as a substitute for genuinely scarce tin, copper and other metals that the Treasury is going to release 40,000 tons from its own hoard. It has become so useful, indeed, that some of its friends think the No. 1 political metal may even be taken out of politics...
...Indirectly, war is putting silver spoons in American mouths. Sterling silver tableware contains much less copper than high-grade plated ware, is therefore likely to be available when plated ware...
...Treasury is also forbidden by law to sell its silver below $1.29 an ounce. Washington lawyers managed to dope out a way to lend-lease it. The way: use silver instead of copper for bus bars in electric generating plants and in the "pot lines" of aluminum and magnesium plants. A typical large bus bar would take a chunk of silver 24 feet long, eight inches wide, three-fourths of an inch thick-weighing 650 lb. After the war the silver, little or none the worse for wear, could be replaced by copper again and returned to West Point...