Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent chiefly for rubber, manganese, copper, tin, zinc, aluminum...
North Korea produces more than tigers and timber. It has 75% of all the industry on the peninsula and in the Musan fields of the far northeast lie Korea's largest iron deposits; from the northern mountains come gold, copper and most of the country's coal-anthracite, bituminous and lignite...
...Commodity Exchange, the price of rubber soared the permissible daily limit of 2$ a lb. Though Washington officials denied any plans to speed up buying for the Government stockpile (now only about 40% complete), commodity men did not believe them: up also went the futures prices of grains, copper, lead, tin and zinc. In five days, the Dow-Jones index of all futures prices rose 3.95 points to 150.48, highest close since July...
...flat acres of potato farmland near Hicksville, Long Island, an army of trucks sped over new-laid roads. Every 100 feet, the trucks stopped and dumped identical bundles of lumber, pipes, bricks, shingles and copper tubing-all as neatly packaged as loaves from a bakery. Near the bundles, giant machines with an endless chain of buckets ate into the earth, taking just 13 minutes to dig a narrow, four-foot trench around a 25-by-32 ft. rectangle. Then came more trucks, loaded with cement, and laid a four-inch foundation for a house in the rectangle...
...presses, is several steps removed from the linotype. To produce this plate a thin plastic mold is made from the flat page forms, which hold the proofread lines of type ejected by the linotype. The mold is then sprayed with a silver solution, given an electrolysis bath, copper-plated and nickel-plated. That leaves a thin shell of printing surface, which must be backed up and strengthened for the printing press. Hot, molten metal is poured into the shell, which is then rolled into a curved plate and cooled. The rough edges are beveled and it is ready...