Word: copperizing
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...expected, the first order of William H. Harrison, boss of the National Production Authority, put a ceiling on business inventories to prevent hoarding of scarce materials. The broad order, issued this week, covered 32 materials, all the way from iron, steel, copper, gypsum board and industrial alcohol to burlap and nylon yarn. (Retail buyers were not affected.) Businessmen were warned not to accumulate materials "beyond what is needed for immediate production...
...prices than 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...
...congressional hearings released last week, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson forecast some other pinches. He gave an estimate of how much copper, aluminum and steel would be diverted from civilian production to the rearmament program in the year ending next June...
...copper production-about 175,000 tons...
Perhaps, speculated Dr. Hundley, people with impaired digestion or on restricted diets do not get enough copper into their systems. For such cases he would like to see careful medical testing of a diet containing copper-rich items like liver and seafood. But no one, however grey, should try taking his copper straight. In any but the smallest amounts, copper is a cumulative poison...