Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under existing law, the Army has taken over a locomotive crane, blueprints of a device for converting 1903 rifles into semiautomatics, a number of lathes, a 25-gallon copper still. But nobody was more upset than single-minded Judge Patterson at the outcry that under the "draft property" act the Administration could "take a man's watch or stifle the freedom of the press." Said he in surprise: "No such things were ever contemplated." But when he canvassed for support outside Congress, he ran into the same fear...
Similar preclusive deals with other South American countries are in the cards. Economic diplomats in Washington look to Colombia's platinum and mercury; Bolivia's tin and tungsten; Chile's copper and nitrates; Venezuela's asphalt and oil-many another product the U.S. can use and ought to keep out of Axis hands...
...case of coffee was merely last week's example of the conflict in policy among the Government's various arms. Many another import commodity-copper, rubber, tin. tungsten-has felt the conflict too. New Dealers figured there was only one ultimate solution: a Government import monopoly, next step toward total economic...
Their $600,000.000 industry had been picked by OPM as one of the first real victims of priorities among consumer industries (see p. 18). They were picked because they use a lot of aluminum (6 sq. ft. of sheet per set), as well as zinc, copper, lead, other critical materials. When OPM made up its priorities list, radios were sandwiched "between hair tonic and toothpaste," with a B-7 rating. OPM figured that since U.S. citizens already bend an ear to 53,000,000 receiving sets, more would be a luxury...
Died. Arthur Curtiss James, 74, towering, bearded builder of one of the world's great railroad empires; in Manhattan. Grandson of one of the five original partners in Phelps, Dodge (copper), he inherited 25 million dollars in 1907, added to it a reputed 50 million by shrewd investments, became the biggest individual owner of railroad stock in the country. With the gradual acquisition of large blocks of stock in Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific, he came into a control that enabled him to join the roads in a vast trunk system sprawling from...