Word: coppering
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...clothe 1,500,000 men. Boots were lacking, to say nothing of bayonets. The country had tankage capacity for only three months' normal consumption of oil. And the tanks were not more than two-thirds full. Weary from two wars, Italy had insufficient reserves of cotton, scrap iron, copper. Above all, there was no will to war among the people...
Leather is scarce and so is cotton. The orange crop was normal last year and Spain had an export surplus, but olives and olive oil, the country's big agricultural exports, were below normal. Exports were at the expense of hungry Spaniards. The output of mineral resources (iron, copper, mercury, potash), in spite of British and Nazi efforts, was about 75% of pre-war normal...
...Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were still detained at Hong Kong, when in came the Vladimir Mayakovsky, also under British escort. She had 4,000 tons of U. S. copper and a lot of molybdenite aboard, cleared from Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast and San Pedro, Calif. She, too, was bound for Vladivostok. Her cargo, too, was suspect as contraband for Germany...
Freeport Sulphur (which reported a net of $2,200,762, up 46.8% from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian...
...pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. Lawyer Untermyer made $75,000 in his 21st year, was a millionaire before he was 40, made his fame as counsel for the Pujo Committee in the Congressional investigation of the "Money Trust." Some of his biggest fees: $775,000 for merging Utah Copper with Boston Consolidated and Nevada Consolidated; a cool million for reorganizing the amusement empire of William Fox. For three witnesses whom he examined, he expressed professional admiration : the late Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, the late John D. Rockefeller Sr. ("He could always read my mind"), the late J. P. Morgan...