Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only concepts which are as staggering as these vastnesses are China's material lacks. Her huge Army has become expert despite a most appalling want of arms and ammunition. China's total copper output is now less than 3,000 tons a year. She puts out less than 100,000 tons of finished steel,† In a single ten-day bombardment on a single ten-mile front in World War I, at Passchendaele, 88,000 tons of copper and steel were flung around...
...other ways, war's pinch tightened enough last week to raise more than aluminum bruises on the U.S. economic body. To the list of metals already under mandatory Government control (aluminum, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...
...electrodes are pads of soft rubber sponge covered with interlacing bands of thin copper strip, and are attached to a small electric transformer and timing device. A current of 70 to 100 volts is passed from one side of the patient's head to the other for about one-tenth of a second...
...eager to argue with those who believe that civil consumption can be cut down by allowing prices to rise as they naturally would. He points out that in copper, steel and other basic materials, price increases would not draw out really significant new capacity; he notes that in copper no price rise within reason would avert the necessity of copper imports, now averaging 25,500 tons a month; that almost every shred of present steel capacity is being utilized, even to moving Negro families out of old beehive ovens in the South. He points to the automobile industry...
...Coast and returning to the Pacific, such cargoes now will be landed on the West Coast, sent overland by rail. Important among them are rubber (estimated to amount to 354,000 tons this year), and tin (45,000 tons) from the Far East. Furthermore, nitrates (300,000 tons) and copper (300,000 tons) from South America's West Coast may soon be landed in the South, shipped north by rail...