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...Priorities Chief Donald Nelson last week told a Congressional committee that 1,378,000 Ib. of copper, some of it "undoubtedly Axis-owned," lay in U.S. warehouses, untouchable despite the acute copper shortage. Not only will that copper now be requisitioned, but also carloads of machinery, steel, silk, rubber, tin plate, manganese and other hoarded, hidden and frozen inventories. Economic Defense Board and OPM agents combed New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco freight yards for them last week (TIME...
...Isthmian Steamship Co.'s Black Eagle was probably halfway from Manila to Honolulu when the Navy's order came, at once made haste under forced draught. Loaded to the scuppers with rubber, tin, other strategic materials, she would be a fat prize in anyone...
...exports of aviation fuel to Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still buying silk...
Harvard's Tin Pan Alley was born during the bitter A.S.C.A.P.B.M.I. tiff, with the impudent idea that its minstrels were going to give the two other organization plenty of competitions and make the quarrel a triangular affair...
...Switzerland: 1,491,000 lb. of steel plate; 690,192 lb. of tin plate; 19 automobiles...