Word: flaskfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excuses for the prolongation of the struggle. Wrote a German reporter attached to the Nazi Army: "This war is the driest of all wars. . . . Down deep with the pail-up it came with mire and mud. On to the next well. It yielded only a brownish broth . . . a field flask with drinking water . . . today in the East is worth more than anything that can happen to you. . . . We yearn for so much . . . for one hour without the din of battle, for one stretch of summer landscape that doesn't smell of conflagration and death, for one walk through...
...housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold as high as $200 a flask. So the Administration stopped issuing export licenses for domestic mercury (a strategic material) and the price fell...
...them "cooking" the rocks, drops of mercury rolling out the long pipes. One man's take for one day cooked him a flask of "quick" & he worked no more that week...
...nugget" of cinnabar & the four sacks which yielded a flask of "quick" were extremely unusual. Most of the men do well to make laborer's wages. Many do better occasionally. Sometimes they find such rich ore that to drill the highly volatile stuff is dangerous: the fumes. But again some miner will pick away for days in the all but airless devil's pocket & have hardly 50 pounds of rich ore to show...
...reason is quicksilver's war price. Even in peacetime, 15% of world production goes into fulminate for explosives. Another war use: calomel for soldiers' bowels, ointments for their skins. Last summer, up from a 1932 low of $46 a flask, the price of quicksilver was idling between $83 and $91, just below the price most U. S. mines need for profitable production. When war broke out, it shot up to $147, by February had reached $185, has stayed near there since. Warring governments have clamped the lid on news of their needs and reserve supplies. Panicky...