Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Broadcasting Co. celebrated its isth birthday last week-15 years during which it has become the U.S.'s most continuously audible institution. In a new, copper-lined studio-theater in Manhattan's Radio City a select and sober audience heard two hours and 45 minutes of air festival, carried over all 243 stations of the Red and Blue networks...
...Substituting scarcer aluminum for scarce copper (thesis: bauxite-in-the-ground is more plentiful than copper-in-the-ground...
...Using some of the Treasury's 100,000-ton hoard of silver as a substitute for copper in electrical machinery...
...named Maus R. Van Benschoten. He has been peering through his horn-rimmed spectacles for strategic materials tied up in railroad yards, warehouses, backyards. By last week he had almost finished. On his desk, hundreds of pink slips showed such "frozen" items as 20,000,000 lb. of copper sheets, ingots, wire, etc., 27,500,000 lb. of tin plate and 4,000,000 lb. of pig tin, "vast quantities" of rubber, silk, wool, hides, chemicals...
...questioned) were almost all in, but untabulated. They had already turned up some interesting preliminary unbalances: pulp and paper mills with ten months' supply of lead; 59 printing-machinery plants with nine months' supply of brass; an auto company with a whole year's store of copper...