Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power just in time to use it. Priorities Chief Donald Nelson last week told a Congressional committee that 1,378,000 Ib. of copper, some of it "undoubtedly Axis-owned," lay in U.S. warehouses, untouchable despite the acute copper shortage. Not only will that copper now be requisitioned, but also carloads of machinery, steel, silk, rubber, tin plate, manganese and other hoarded, hidden and frozen inventories. Economic Defense Board and OPM agents combed New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco freight yards for them last week (TIME...
...When a material gets as scarce as copper," SPAB Director Donald Nelson told the Truman Committee last week, "priorities are no longer any good. It has to be straight allocation . . . both from the top and from the bottom...
...this week a large section of the civilian economy discovered that "allocation from the bottom" was no safer than priorities. In a drastic order, the use of copper was virtually forbidden (after Jan. 1) in more than 100 common household products-from toys to fire extinguishers, from caskets to jewelry...
...jewelers arrived in Washington last week the day after Donald Nelson had given the New York Sales Executives Club some jolting facts about copper. For this month latest OPM estimates show 5,730 tons too little copper for defense and Lend-Lease alone. For 1942 they show a maximum supply of 1,650,000 tons (including a sanguine 600,000 tons of imports); defense and Lend-Lease needs of 1,050,000 tons; "essential civilian" needs of 250.000 tons. This left 350,000 tons for "other civilian" demand-which OPM estimated at 1,100,000 tons...
...Manufacturing Jewelers & Silversmiths Association, was soon closeted with Washington's most important defensemen (see cut).* To them he described the idleness that faces 35,500 jewelry factory workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island (60,000 in the U.S.) unless the industry gets a measly 5,688 tons of copper, 1.409 tons of zinc, in 1942. Without it he saw at least two ghost towns: North Attleboro and Attleboro, Mass., dead center of the industry in this war as in the last. In 1918 Barney Baruch had not let Attleboro go under...