Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward R. Stettinius, whose Industrial Materials division was caught napping on almost every major defense material: steel, aluminum, copper, ad infinitum; and whose eagerness to please everybody had almost wrecked the priority system by first giving full priorities to almost everyone and then forgetting to set up any enforcement plan until last month...
Chemist Boyer last week hoped for "limited production" by 1943, said "there's lots of development work to do." Plastic bodies would relieve some of Detroit's immediate worries over steel and chrome, but not over copper, zinc, nickel, other shortages. Nor could it easily get the new presses and tools to work the plastics. But in normal times, plastic cars would take some 10% of the steel industry's market and give it to farmers. The new Ford was the first gun in a technological revolution that may begin when the other guns are stilled...
...Leon Henderson, all he could do was go back to his office, announce more price ceilings, hope that by some miracle they would be obeyed. Last week he put ceilings on raw sugar, burlap, copper, pig tin, pine lumber. But bootlegging has put holes in Leon's previous ceilings and doubtless will continue to riddle his new ones...
...automobiles rumor cropped up after OPM suddenly discovered the newest and worst shortage: copper (which went under full priority control last fortnight). One Government estimate of this month's copper situation: supply, 110,000 tons; defense requirements, 80,000 tons; essential non-defense needs, 45,000 tons. This means a 15,000-ton shortage even for essential requirements, not a single pound to spare for civilian uses such as the auto industry (which normally uses 110,000 tons a year for radiators, ignition equipment, etc.). Other short auto materials include cast iron (for engine blocks) and steel, which also...
Typical problems for Sir Kenneth: The June issue of the British Export Gazette contained an advertisement offering all kinds of electric equipment plus copper and aluminum for immediate delivery anywhere. Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. recently had a cable from Britain offering alnico, an alloy of aluminum, nickel, copper and iron unavailable in the U.S. because of priorities, essential to Zenith's battery sets. In both cases deliveries were stopped by British export control...