Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saving copper is thus still the only answer to the copper crisis. Some of the fancier notions of this sort...
...Making cartridge shells (which already swallow ⅓ of the U.S. copper supply) of soft steel, as the U.S.S.R. and Germany have done...
Britain itself has contracted for 80% of Canada's output (peak production around 300,000 tons), has first call on Africa's mines. Since the U.S. is now re-exporting, under Lend-Lease, some 40% of its copper imports from the Western Hemisphere, it would make little sense to press for more of the Empire copper that Britain is already getting directly...
...York) did not encourage all-out production in Latin America. So Jesse Jones's Deputy Will Clayton late in September raised his ante to 11½?a lb. By last week, the latest import figures made it appear that he had also licked the other big Latin American copper problem: shipping space. Chile alone (counted on for 80% of U.S. copper imports) shipped 54,000 tons to the U.S. in August, more than twice last February's low. OPM now counts on Latin America for not more than 600,000 tons (⅓ of total U.S. supplies...
...British Empire controls two other big-time copper sources. Rhodesia alone can produce some 500,000 tons a year from enormous reserves. Rhodesia's production (whose fabulously low cost was a major cause of the U.S. 4? copper duty) is a military secret, but is said to have suffered from a shortage of skilled white overseers...