Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Potential. Yugoslavia is the most important copper-producing country in Europe, and also mines bauxite (aluminum ore)-but Germany was getting these things from the Yugoslavs beforehand. Greece has not much to offer the Nazis but tobacco and trouble. The two countries, therefore, did not add much materially to the Nazi war potential. In fact, disruption of communications, the destruction of buildings, all the dislocations of war, would temporarily hurt it a little. On the other hand, losing the countries would not hurt Britain's supplies...
Engaged. Norman Armour Jr., 21, Princeton junior, only child of U.S. Ambassador to the Argentine Norman ("The Ideal Diplomat") Armour; and Cynthia Sewell Burrage, 19, granddaughter of the late multimillionaire Boston copper king Albert Cameron Burrage; in Boston...
...Serbs they did not disclose. But whether there would be a puppet state or a new province of the Reich, it was certain that Germany's hand would be heavy upon them because: 1) the Germans blame the Serbs for Yugoslav resistance; 2) Germany needs Serbia's copper and foodstuffs. They would probably not get much food from Serbia this year, thanks to war damage and the dislocation of agriculture which the German push has caused in all Balkan countries...
Automakers released to U.S. defense last week an estimated 70,000 skilled workmen, 1,380,000 tons of steel (nearly 2% of U.S. capacity), 124,850 tons of rubber, 5,500 tons of aluminum, 29,040 tons of copper, 2,640 tons of tin, 60,170 tons of lead, 5,275,600 Ib. of nickel. Two days later they made available an additional $35,000,000 of machine tooling, 15,000,000 more man-hours of production, much of their best engineering talent...
...used 80% of all rubber consumed in the U.S., 51% of malleable iron, 34.2% of lead, 18.1% of steel, 14% of grey iron. In the field of essential defense materials where the pinch is greatest, it used 23% of the nation's nickel, 13.7% of copper, 11.4% of tin, 9.7% of aluminum. Now defense needs some of these men and materials...