Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endorse his policy of all-out nationalization -no strings. Mossadeq uttered a threat: unless a quorum assembled and voted him confidence, he would not be responsible for order. One by one the intimidated parliamentarians filed past the Speaker's desk to drop cards into one of two copper pots. All the 91 cards dropped were white, meaning yes; no one dropped a blue card meaning no. One brave member abstained...
Above Suspicion. In Berlin, five men were caught trying to steal the copper roofing on the Moabit Criminal Court building...
...hooks, crosses, uppercuts and underswung bolos* crashed through De Bruin's blockade of glove and muscle. Robinson was on target, bombarding his opponent with boxing's most effective and versatile arsenal. By the middle of Round Eight, De Bruin had had enough. Pummeled and pounded by a copper-colored whirlwind that seemed to buffet him from all sides, he wearily threw up a hand in a gesture of defeat and ambled out of the ring. It was Sugar Ray Robinson's 125th victory in a string that has stretched for eleven years with only two draws...
...Europe, Wilson became convinced that civilian production is about as low as it can be if Europe is to remain afloat economically. This is true notably in Britain. The squeeze on civilian goods will have to come in the U.S. Thus, Britain will get a priority to purchase U.S. copper for its jet planes, even if it means that U.S. TV-set makers must do without it; France will be able to buy molybdenum for its steel plants, even if U.S. auto production has to be cut back further...
...Bradley's early career as a soldier was no more unusual than his reason for becoming one (West Point was free and he was poor). While some of his classmates ('15) helped to make military history in World War I, Bradley commanded a guard company in the copper mines at Butte, Mont. He began to think that his "career had been washed out from the start." But at Fort Benning in 1929, he had worked for a lieutenant colonel named George Marshall...