Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire OPM v. OPACS fight over how-much and in-what-way the production of automobiles should be cut down became futile this week when the shortage of copper became so acute that there would be none left for non-defense consumption...
Shortages. "The worst shortages already upon us are those in aluminum, magnesium, copper and nickel. There will be hardly enough aluminum to build the planes we know we'll need, let alone supply other military needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia...
Metal shortages have already cut into an odd assortment of consumers' goods: zippers, outboard motors, dollar watches, bicycles, compacts. Home builders now have trouble getting pumps, electric motors, bathtubs, copper tubing, brass fittings, light fixtures. A good share of the extra dollars that U.S. consumers have to spend will go into bigger purchases of food (of which the U.S. has enough, ex cept for temporary shortages like toma toes and salmon, bought up by the Army and the British). More will go for "soft" consumers' goods like clothes (the U.S. has a 9,000,000-bale cotton surplus...
...Wrote the head of Sol-Ray Engineering Co. (sun-heated water systems) from Day tona Beach, Fla., begging for copper: "Is our business going to be ruined along with the investment? If so, what is a man of 50 with a family going to do. . .?" This week, copper went under full priorities...
...Copper is available in Japan in amounts barely sufficient for peacetime needs. Last year Japan imported 130,356 tons of refined copper and scrap from the U.S., other large supplies from Latin America (now partly cut off by U.S. pre-emptive buying programs below the border). Other basic materials of which Japan is short include coal (barely enough for peacetime requirements), zinc (50% of peacetime