Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Acts. WPB's first official actions made good sense. It officially stopped automobile production, curtailed radio production by 45%, virtually ended civilian use of rubber and aluminum. It began a hard-boiled survey of copper inventories, to try to find leaks of that vital metal from arms production. It ordered automobile graveyards turned into scrap, badly needed for steel production...
...most common U.S. coins were due for a face-lifting last week. To save copper, nickel and tin, the Mint announced that...
...Nickels, now one part nickel and three parts copper, will be coined half of silver, half of copper. Net saving on a year's new coinage: 434 tons of nickel, 434 tons of copper. (The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved a bill authorizing this change...
...their pure form some luminescent pigments glow quite feebly, but they brighten up startlingly when only .0006% of certain metals such as copper are added. Yet if a similar infinitesimal .0006% of iron is also present, the afterglow is dimmed by one-third. Since iron could easily be floating about the laboratories as dust, great care must be taken to guard the purity of the ingredients while they are being compounded in electric furnaces. Result: luminescent pigments are costly-price last week was from $12 to $25 per lb., or $10 to $60 per gallon for paints...
...having trouble enough keeping his Union together in the face of political opposition, race problems and fifth columning. Though South Africa may have to limp along with no new equipment, a likelier spot for a real labor shift is Rhodesia, with some 75,000 gold miners. Rhodesia's copper production is a military secret, but is said to be lagging (TIME, Nov. 17). More miners might help...