Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the 1942 U.S. copper deficiency is estimated at 770,000 tons, Morenci comes in none too soon. OPM's copper curtailment order went into effect last week, cut off all supplies from manufacturers of 100-odd copper gadgets after...
...pictures at top and bottom of this page illustrate why the U.S. can't expand copper production fast enough to meet its needs-four years elapsed between them. It took that long for Phelps Dodge to behead a mountain and lay bare the mile-long, 400-ft. thick clay ore body (below) for exploitation. This week Phelps Dodge is putting finishing touches on this new $35,000,000 Morenci mine in Arizona; next month it will start to smelt 6,500 tons of copper a month...
Frontiersman Robert Metcalf first stumbled on the green-stained rocks of the Morenci bed 70 years ago. Its exposed ore was so rich it was "quarried rather than mined." But by 1932, after yielding 1,800,000,000 lb. of copper, the high-grade open veins were played out, the underground low-grade (1.06%) ore too costly to work for a 6? copper market. Morenci became another ghost town...
...SPAB has yet to define allocation in the sense of ranking allocatees. Army and Navy, who use copper in a way most businessmen would consider lavish, still hogged the head of the queue last week. No plans for supplying a minimum civilian economy had been formulated. With incomplete statistics on inventories the true dimensions and use of the existing copper supply were still unknown. Around the corner loomed another possible claimant for first place in the queue: plant expansion. Above all, SPAB had no technique (such as World War I's industry committees) for the execution of its allocations...
...formal order, to be issued very soon, will forbid the use of nickel, chromium, copper or aluminum in nonfunctional automobile parts. These are the principal materials in the huge shiny grilles, glistening hub caps and sparkling trim which garnish the 1942 models. An important exception: bumpers, tagged "functional" after an acrimonious Government-industry semantic fight...