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Silver as a Strategic War Material
Treasury Stocks and the Demand for Silver
Silver has been elevated to the rank of a strategic war material by shortages of tin and aluminum and other metals for -which it serves as a substitute-and notably by a developing shortage of copper, which may prove a more serious obstruction to the war effort than the existing shortage of rubber.
With the emergence of important war uses for silver, the supply in the ...