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...Zinc White: Supply reduced by 7 to 20% of normal production; prices...
Ever since Henderson permitted zinc prices to rise 14% to 8.25? a lb. (TIME, Oct. 20), leadmen confidently awaited a comparable boost for them. They thought Leon would recognize that lead and zinc are usually mined together, usually move together pricewise. But he didn...
...soon closeted with Washington's most important defensemen (see cut).* To them he described the idleness that faces 35,500 jewelry factory workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island (60,000 in the U.S.) unless the industry gets a measly 5,688 tons of copper, 1.409 tons of zinc, in 1942. Without it he saw at least two ghost towns: North Attleboro and Attleboro, Mass., dead center of the industry in this war as in the last. In 1918 Barney Baruch had not let Attleboro go under...
March 31, 1942, except for defense orders already started, which will require 288,000 Ib. Because the company also fabricates brass and zinc products, some of its 250 employes will still work...
...similar price increase is likely for lead (now pegged at 5.8?), which is frequently mined with zinc. But for metals like copper-where big producers can work profitably at capacity under the present 12? ceiling-Henderson favors a two-price system to bring out marginal production. His plan: the ceiling will stay at 12?, but defense agencies will buy from high-cost producers at a higher figure...