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...also slashed the civilian use of zinc by 20% and nickel by 35% for the first quarter of next year, and chopped in half this month's civilian allotment of cobalt, taking it away from the television manufacturers and giving it to the jet-engine and steel makers...
...those paid to foreign producers. The board will take off price restrictions on a few badly needed materials, will try to avoid a blanket increase. With the new high prices, the board hopes to persuade U.S. miners to develop low-grade deposits of such metals as manganese, copper and zinc, thus speed up its lagging stockpiling program...
...price structures throughout the world. Then, after reassessing the chances of war, the board got its courage up, began to buy urgently and widely, and set itself a new goal of a $4 billion stockpile by 1956. Again it stirred up a fuss. Three weeks before the Korean invasion, zinc men howled that stockpiling was driving prices too high for U.S. plants and their customers. These cries were drowned out by the lead men, bawling that their prices would fall because the board was slacking off its lead buying...
...spent chiefly for rubber, manganese, copper, tin, zinc, aluminum...
...price of rubber soared the permissible daily limit of 2$ a lb. Though Washington officials denied any plans to speed up buying for the Government stockpile (now only about 40% complete), commodity men did not believe them: up also went the futures prices of grains, copper, lead, tin and zinc. In five days, the Dow-Jones index of all futures prices rose 3.95 points to 150.48, highest close since July...