Show Worth Your Weight in Lead R REMEMBER DEMEMBER when we used to speak of something being worth its weight in gold goldor or as good as gold or gilt edged Well you'd better forget those familiar phrases for a while For nowadays if you tell your wife she's worth her weight in gold its it's practically an insult insult and and to say that a security is gilt edged or your check is as good goodas as as gold is tantamount to saying its it's really good for nothing Gold which not so many months ago we were hoarding in great underground vaults as fast as we could dig it up and then bury it again isn't of much use any longer the government government gov gov- says According to Dr Wilbur Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- son chief of the mining branch of the war production board the government thinks copper copper copper cop cop- per zinc and lead are a lot more valuable right now than the precious metals and wants miners to concentrate their labor and equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment on digging these base metals out of the ground The idea of copper zinc and lead being worth more to us right now than gold is a little hard to get through ones one's head yet head yet its it's pretty obvious that all the gold in the world buried in underground vaults wont won't do us much good if the Japs and nazis have us fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing with our packs backs to the wall overhead A Afew Afew few tons of copper zinc and lead for shells and bullets might be a whale of a lot more important to us then Anyway it certainly is interesting how war changes traditional ideas and phrases What's that my dear Oh no Im I'm just paying you a high compliment I said you were worth your weight in lead |