Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While the U.S. sweated to get along with synthetic production, mouth-watering news came from Singapore: the price of Far Eastern rubber (22½? a Ib. before Pearl Harbor, when it was America's chief source of supply) is less than 1? a Ib. Reason: now that the Japs control practically all the natural rubber there is, they cannot find a buyer capable of taking it away...
...Nations with sugar on the assumption that we might be cut off from Hawaiian and even Puerto Rican supplies. Cuba promptly upped production by 15% and produced some 4,500,000 tons of sugar and molasses in 1942 and sold most of it to the U.S. at 2.65? a Ib. f.o.b., only a shade above the 1941 market...
...Advantages. Now on its way, Permanente may some day have advantages over other magnesium producers: its raw material costs average 4? a Ib. v. 14? for the ferrosilicon process used by Union Carbide & Carbon; its power costs are below those for the "sea water" process used by No. 1 U.S. magnesium-maker Dow Chemical. In the head-to-head battle of metals (steel v. aluminum v. magnesium, etc.) which will surely follow the Armistice, this will mean easy going for Permanente, tougher sledding for its competitors...
Instead of meeting a pliant Uncle Sam, Cuban sugar men have therefore smacked into a tough bargainer. The U.S. offer to Cuba last month: a 40% cut in production, last year's price, plus two measly sops in the form of 1-1½? a Ib. for an additional 400,000-ton stock pile and vague offers to help Cuba diversify its one-crop economy (which is more than high-cost domestic producers have been persuaded...
...plenty of the blame rests squarely on U.S. meat buyers. With more free cash than ever before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...