Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During certain illnesses, the amount of copper and other metals in the blood rises appreciably. This has been observed in cases of pregnancy for several years. But only recently Vallee and his associates found the same increase occurs in some schizophrenics and manic depressives, as well as in some cancer and tuberculosis patients...
...House of Commons last week, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton announced: "There are massive economic reasons for federation ... A single port serves all three. There is a need for Nyasaland labor in Northern and Southern Rhodesia . . . Coal from Wankie in Southern Rhodesia is required for the copper mines of Northern Rhodesia...
...supplies of metals, manufacturers learned that the pinch will not be as tight as they had feared. Reason: the "stretch-out"in the arms program enabled DPA to reduce the additional 10% cut in metals which had been scheduled. Instead, steel will not be cut at all; copper and aluminum will be cut only 5% on the average. And even "less essential" producers (aluminum blinds, cigarette lighters, etc.) will now be allowed as high a rate of production as anybody else. Thus, many civilian-goods makers will still have enough materials to turn out almost 50% of their pre-Korea...
...Copper...
...more pounds of aluminum than they could use under the "stretch-out" arms program. He granted an extra 1,000,000 Ibs. for the auto industry. As a result, the industry, which had been authorized to turn out 930,000 cars in the second quarter but allowed only enough copper and aluminum for 800,000, hoped it might be able to boost its production closer to the authorized quota...