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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During World War I (which sent the price of tin to $1.10 per lb.), U. S. war planners became tin-conscious. A U. S. tin smelter was built to process East Indian ore imported direct into the U. S. but British interests, practically monopolizing world tin mining and smelting, slapped export taxes on ore shipments to the U. S., stifled the infant U. S. tin-smelting industry...
...Planning Committee for Mineral Policy, which urgently recommended accumulation of a stockpile. But the President, who won his bet with Senator Borah that World War II would begin in autumn 1939, never pressed for action. When war came, the price of tin shot up from 49? to 75? a lb., then slumped back as the first wave of inventory buying passed. Last week, independently of Government initiative, U. S. tin smelting was cautiously getting off to a new start. Two famed U. S. copper interests-Phelps Dodge (No. 3 U. S. copper unit) and American Metal...
...advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry 40 or 50, up to one-ton monsters. As Britain mobilized an even greater trawler fleet and called for hundreds of volunteers from North Sea fishing ports, down went one ship after another, great and small, trawler and liner, nationality regardless. The 11,930-ton Japanese luxury steamer Terukuni Maru went...
That man was Pierce Butler, who died one day last week, just before dawn. With this 220-lb., 6-foot-2-inch monolith died the last hopes of those who believe that the frost is getting through the seams of the U. S. Constitution. With four New Dealers on the Supreme Court bench and a fifth to take Pierce Butler's place, snowy-whiskered Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes will no longer control the balance of power...
...lb. Frank McHale, McNutt's organizer, could mark off another point reached in the McNutt campaign for the Presidency, which "Oomph Paul" began when he was seven years old. Apparently Mr. McHale had charted last week as "Be-Kind-To-Liberals-Week," for in seven days Mr. McNutt spoke in Lakeland, Fla., in Washington (to the pinko National Lawyers Guild), and to the Janizariat at the Cosmos-each time advocating broad-based, New Deal reform views...