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...Proclaimed, effective Feb. 3, regulations stringently restricting exports of copper, brass, bronze, zinc, nickel, potash...
...shortage of zinc for defense purposes (TIME, Jan. 6) will not be so acute after American Smelting & Refining Co. completes a new plant announced last week. Place: Texas. Operation date: early 1942. Capacity: 24,000 to 30,000 tons a year...
Last week the State Department still maintained a know-nothing attitude, but the Defense Advisory Commission finally asked that copper and zinc exports (mean ing to Japan and Russia) be made subject to licensing. The zinc request was prompted, among other things, by a blast earlier this month from C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper & Brass. Dallas' com plaint: in October, Japan got 3,775 tons of zinc, in 1940's first ten months, 12,042 tons. Meanwhile, Brass mills working on cartridges, shell cases, detonator caps, rotating bands, fuse caps, other munitions for British...
...self-advertised world's highest incorporated city, has seen some fancy goings on from its perch two miles up in the Rocky Mountains. Since the discovery of silver touched off an avalanche of fortune seekers in 1878, its mines have yielded some $600 million in silver, gold, lead, zinc, copper, manganese. Today it is still a rowdy, frontier mining town. Queen of its night life is the Pastime's Blonde Bobbie, who relaxes at the piano between rounds, amazes customers with a repertoire ranging from blues to classics (all played by ear). On West Second Street flourishes...
...French Indo-China Japan was reported to have served up a fresh set of demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...