Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water and then-in a maddeningly delicate operation-split it in two. He oiled the halves until they were transparent, laid them on wax tablets covered with photosensitive jelly, and exposed them to light. After that, he brushed the two tablets with fine graphite, suspended them in a copper sulphate solution with pieces of pure copper and made master plates by electrolysis...
After the airline crash in Quebec last autumn which took the lives of three Kennecott Copper Corp. executives and 20 others (TIME, Sept. 19), investigators turned up shocking evidence. The crash was no accident; it was planned murder. To get rid of his wife, who was aboard the plane, a jeweler named Albert Guay had planted a dynamite bomb in the freight compartment. Last week a trial jury took just 14 minutes to find Guay guilty. The sentence: death by hanging...
...story got around and the label stuck. In their passionately partisan study of Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt, Authors Charles Wayland Towne (retired publicity director for Anaconda Copper) and Edward Norris Wentworth (director of Armour's Livestock Bureau) make it clear that a pork packer as Uncle Sam's prototype is not too outlandish an idea. "More than any other commodity," say the authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing...
...Alabama, eleven candidates had declared for Big Jim Folsom's job (Alabama governors may not succeed themselves). Most conspicuous were Judge Elbert Boozer, who moves about with a $20,000 trailer built as a replica of the state capitol, complete with desks, radio telephones and a copper dome raised and lowered pneumatically; Eugene ("Bull") Connor, Birmingham's police commissioner, whose political views are enshrined in his remark: "I ain't going to let no darkies and white folks segregate together in this town"; and Gordon Persons, Public Service Commission chairman, who will campaign by helicopter...
...other speakers who addressed the meeting were Harold R. Bixler, Executive Vice-President of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, and Theodore E. Veltfort, Manager of the Copper and Brass Research Association. The forum was the third in a series sponsored by the Office of Student Placement...