Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women-all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protégées: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan...
...pound. Then OPACS's Leon Henderson clamped down with a request to suspend trading, a tentative price ceiling of $3.04 (the Monday level). To Manhattan's Commodity Exchange (which suspended silk trading and deliveries this week) this meant loss of its last important item of trade. Copper and rubber trading had been suspended previously and hide trading is limited by a price ceiling...
...conserve scarce materials is to take them from industries using the most. He figures a 50% auto cut (along with a 30-50% cut in refrigerators and washing machines ordered at the same time) would save 4,250,000 tons of iron and steel, besides much nickel, aluminum, copper, chromium, zinc...
...Extended its industry-wide control over copper to include copper base alloys, brass and bronze...
...shortage economy, this argument no longer holds even a drop of water. Therefore big mining companies (including Anaconda, Phelps Dodge, Cerro de Pasco) also have been seeking new industrial uses for silver as a hedge against possible repeal of the program. Some of their suggestions: substituting silver for copper in electrical contacts, using it with magnesium for lightweight alloys...