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Show Hew Modern Warfare Consumes Copper Why we have had io curtail j copper for domestic uses J j 1 Aircraft Carrier 500 Anti-aircraft guns Vfgy ll ll II ' ' in one hour, U U U U hool away H H H H R requires 2,000,000 lbs. of copper U U U U U U -9- 3,000,000 lbs. of copper 'A?-v Copper used in shell cases t-fsO lasl year 1200,000,000 lbs. y? gf' QQjinniiBPD Enough copper was used in shell cases . j to make a 2-conductor lampcord z '- long enough to reach ; -jf?" z&z from earth to the 3f ' planet Venus 25,000,000 miles away I -Each bar () represent 500,000 Ibl. cmat by kimh MO CO. CHICAGO Modern warfare consumes con-sumes copper in quantities so vast as to be beyond the comprehension comprehen-sion of the average individual, j To illustrate the vital role play-i play-i ed by the metal, H. W. Clough, vice president of the Belden Manufacturing Company, a leading lead-ing copper fabricator, chose some data from only one branch of the (combat services the Navy for the accompanying chart. An aircraft carrier requires upwards up-wards of 2,000,000 pounds of copper; cop-per; a destroyer needs approximately approxi-mately 380,000 pounds; the small but deadly PT boats incorporate some 12,000 pounds; in one minute min-ute of combat 50 fighter planes' shoot away, 14,000 pounds of the metal; 500 of certain types of anti-aircraft guns discharge 3,000,000 pounds during one hour of operation. Last year around 1,800,000.000 pounds of brass (containing approximately 1,200,-000,000 1,200,-000,000 pounds of copper) went into cartridge cases alone. This' quantity of copper is sufficient for enough household lamp cords to reach to the planet Venus at its minimum distance from the earth approNimately 25,000,000 miles! . Virtually every article of war, whether it is for direct combat use or equipment for industries producing for combat, requires copper in some form, Mr. Clough pointed out. The Belden Company, Com-pany, with plants in Chicago and Richmond, Indiana, uses important impor-tant quantities of copper for tha production of electrical wires ami cables in a large variety of appli- cations for the fighting forces and war goods manufacturers. |