Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loss of Western Europe would mean losing to the enemy an industrial capacity second only to the U.S., and losing the skilled labor of its 200 million people; it would mean the ultimate loss of all those other areas of political dependency, from which the U.S. draws manganese, copper, uranium, etc. If the U.S. had to stand alone in a world dominated by Communism, "our system would have to wither away. We would suffer economic atrophy and then finally collapse...
Things looked normal enough at the border railroad station of Lowu, where Hong Kong transships its imports to Communist China. Red-capped coolies unloaded copper wire from Europe, office supplies from the U.S., military truck tires from Japan, and natural rubber from Malaya. From the Chinese side of the border, past unsmiling Communist frontier guards, coolies carried the mainland food which the colony gets in return...
Another problem to be reckoned with in the present situation is the Government ban on construction of recreation buildings. Even if it were possible to tie the theatre to educational purposes, and thus evade the ban, there would still remain the restrictions on use of copper tubing and other strategic materials, which are beginning to hold up all kinds of new construction...
...brand new, $3,600 steel and concrete traffic box, topped off by a three-foot copper spindle will rise on the Square within three weeks, weather permitting...
...control box, now under construction behind a wooden barricade at the corner of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue, will have a six-foot square concrete base, four wide plate-glass windows, a copper covered roof, and aluminite and stainless steel trimming, including its bright copper spindle, the new box will tower almost 18 feet above the Square...