Now for the effect which this produced on the country at large:
“The effect of that offer of the copper producers was electrical,” said Mr. Baruch. “It showed that there was in this country a desire to set aside selfishness, so far as our government was concerned in its need * * * ‘Make us any price you want.’ So that was practically the attitude that the producers took.”
But the government did not get cupper at that much-advertised patriotic price. s' Mr. Graham—“They did not payl6 2-3 cents for the 45,000,000 pounds?” > Mr. Baruch—“Oh, no; not these other large quantities of materials.”
He said that the copper was furnished to the gov¬ ernment without receiving money for it; price-fixing was yet in the future. “Then we came to the point, ‘Well, what about the civilian population?’ So we made a rule that became a policy, that whatever price was fixed it should be for everybody; that what was fair for the army and navy was fair for the civilian population.”
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